{"id":117167,"date":"2020-12-15T19:22:19","date_gmt":"2020-12-16T03:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/rocket-startup-astra-reaches-space-for-the-first-time-with-second-launch-attempt-from-alaska"},"modified":"2020-12-15T19:22:19","modified_gmt":"2020-12-16T03:22:19","slug":"rocket-startup-astra-reaches-space-for-the-first-time-with-second-launch-attempt-from-alaska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/rocket-startup-astra-reaches-space-for-the-first-time-with-second-launch-attempt-from-alaska","title":{"rendered":"Rocket startup Astra reaches space for the first time with second launch attempt from Alaska"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/rocket-startup-astra-reaches-space-for-the-first-time-with-second-launch-attempt-from-alaska.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>San Francisco-area startup Astra became the latest U.S. rocket builder to reach space on Tuesday, with the successful launch of its Rocket 3.2 vehicle from Kodiak, Alaska.<\/p>\n<p>The rocket came just shy of reaching orbit, with Astra CEO Chris Kemp telling reporters after the launch that the vehicle reached the target altitude of 390 kilometers but was \u201cjust a half a kilometer per second short\u201d of the target orbital velocity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis far exceeded our team\u2019s expectations,\u201d Kemp said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Francisco-area startup Astra became the latest U.S. rocket builder to reach space on Tuesday, with the successful launch of its Rocket 3.2 vehicle from Kodiak, Alaska. The rocket came just shy of reaching orbit, with Astra CEO Chris Kemp telling reporters after the launch that the vehicle reached the target altitude of 390 kilometers [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}