{"id":131079,"date":"2021-11-22T17:22:17","date_gmt":"2021-11-23T01:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/look-awe-inspiring-video-shows-the-fedex-of-space-reach-orbit"},"modified":"2021-11-22T17:22:17","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T01:22:17","slug":"look-awe-inspiring-video-shows-the-fedex-of-space-reach-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/look-awe-inspiring-video-shows-the-fedex-of-space-reach-orbit","title":{"rendered":"Look: Awe-inspiring video shows the \u201cFedEx of Space\u201d reach orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/97qhttuqtB4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The feat drew the attention of Musk.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>On Saturday, Astra announced via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Astra\/status\/1461944599786622976\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a> that its LV0007 mission reached orbit from the Astra Spaceport in Kodiak, Alaska. The rocket, which carried a payload for the United States <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/science\/inverse-daily-space-force-space-fence\">Space Force<\/a>, took off at 1:16 a.m. Eastern time. The feat earned the praise of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/innovation\/spacex-starship-timelapse\">SpaceX<\/a> CEO Elon Musk, who wrote on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1462198391631458315\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a>: \u201cCongrats! Orbit is not easy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The milestone means Astra is one of a handful of private companies to successfully develop an orbital rocket. Following the launch Astra declared itself \u201cthe first rocket company to reach orbit in less than five years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The company was founded in 2016 and <a href=\"https:\/\/astra.com\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">launched its first two<\/a> rockets to suborbital space in 2018. Astra didn\u2019t exit stealth mode until February 2020, and <em><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2020\/02\/03\/rocket-startup-astra-emerges-from-stealth-aims-to-launch-for-as-little-as-1m-per-flight\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">TechCrunch<\/a><\/em> noted that it was referred to as \u201cStealth Space Company\u201d before its big reveal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The feat drew the attention of Musk. On Saturday, Astra announced via Twitter that its LV0007 mission reached orbit from the Astra Spaceport in Kodiak, Alaska. The rocket, which carried a payload for the United States Space Force, took off at 1:16 a.m. Eastern time. The feat earned the praise of SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":631,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131079","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\/631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}