Astra SpaceAstra Rocket 3Launch Pad 3B, Pacific Spaceport Complex, Alaska, USA
Spaceflight Astra-1
Launched
March 15, 2022
Image: Astra/Brady Kenniston
Summary
Spaceflight Astra-1 launched on an Astra Space Astra Rocket 3 from Launch Pad 3B, Pacific Spaceport Complex, Alaska, USA on March 15, 2022. It was Astra Space's 6th launch, 2nd this year and humanity's 6,209th orbital launch attempt. It was the 6th Astra Rocket 3 flight and the 2nd this year. The payload was bound for Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO). S4 CROSSOVER, one of 22 catalogued objects, reached a 477 × 544 km orbit inclined 97.5°. 22 objects from this launch are catalogued, all of them payloads.
- Watch
- Astra Rocket 3 Spaceflight Astra-1The Space Devs
- Astra Launches Spaceflight Astra-1 MissionNASASpaceflight
- SCRUB: Astra Scrubs Launch of Spaceflight Astra-1 Mission due to WeatherNASASpaceflight
- Vehicle
- Astra Rocket 3 · Astra Space
- Booster
- No booster details on record.
- Mission
- Technology · Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO)
- Milestone
- 6th Astra Rocket 3 flight · 2nd this yearAstra Space's 6th launch2nd this yearhumanity's 6,209th orbital launch attempt27th orbital launch attempt this year
Webcast
Flight preview
Orbit: as tracked
S4 CROSSOVER · NORAD 52008 · 2022-026 · Space-Track · tracking 1 of 22 objects
Show the numbers for orbit elements
- Object
- TBA - TO BE ASSIGNED
- Object ID
- 2022-026A
- Epoch
- 2022-03-15 18:02:37 UTC
- Mean motion
- 15.20799737 rev/day
- Eccentricity
- 0.0048459
- Inclination
- 97.4881°
- Ascending node
- 75.9266°
- Arg. of perigee
- 273.5426°
- Mean anomaly
- 214.5167°
- Element set
- 999
- Rev at epoch
- 1
- B*
- 0
Perigee, apogee and period are Kepler figures from the catalogued mean elements, not a propagated state. Published orbit: SSO. Ascent drawn from padside's representative profile.
Catalogued objects
22 catalogued: 22 payloads; none still in orbit
- S4 CROSSOVER · NORAD 52008 · re-entered January 1, 2024
- SpaceBEE-121 · NORAD 52009 · re-entered March 9, 2024
- SpaceBEE-114 · NORAD 52010 · re-entered February 27, 2024
- SpaceBEE-126 · NORAD 52011 · re-entered February 27, 2024
- SpaceBEE-118 · NORAD 52012 · re-entered February 24, 2024
- SpaceBEE-120 · NORAD 52013 · re-entered February 27, 2024
- SpaceBEE-122 · NORAD 52014 · re-entered February 21, 2024
- SpaceBEE-119 · NORAD 52015 · re-entered March 5, 2024
- SpaceBEE-115 · NORAD 52016 · re-entered March 14, 2024
- ORESAT0 · NORAD 52017 · re-entered September 29, 2024
- SpaceBEE NZ-14 · NORAD 52018 · re-entered November 21, 2023
- SpaceBEE NZ-11 · NORAD 52019 · re-entered November 8, 2023
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- SpaceBEE-127 · NORAD 52020 · re-entered March 30, 2024
- SpaceBEE-125 · NORAD 52021 · re-entered February 21, 2024
- SpaceBEE-117 · NORAD 52022 · re-entered March 20, 2024
- SpaceBEE-116 · NORAD 52023 · re-entered March 12, 2024
- SpaceBEE-113 · NORAD 52024 · re-entered March 1, 2024
- SpaceBEE-112 · NORAD 52025 · re-entered January 12, 2024
- SpaceBEE NZ-13 · NORAD 52026 · re-entered November 16, 2023
- SpaceBEE-123 · NORAD 52027 · re-entered March 12, 2024
- SpaceBEE NZ-12 · NORAD 52028 · re-entered December 13, 2023
- SpaceBEE-124 · NORAD 52029 · re-entered March 9, 2024
Data from J. McDowell, planet4589.org
About this launch
S4 CROSSOVER is a technology demonstration mission to obtain flight heritage testing for a prototype payload host platform. It will test supporting future payloads, including a Globalstar transmitter and an Iridium transceiver, as well space environmental instruments to characterize the radiation and plasma densities to which the payloads will be exposed. S4 CROSSOVER is self powered and operates independently of the Astra second stage to which it is permanently attached. Re-manifested from SXRS-6 / Transporter-3, OreSat0 is a fully open source CubeSat satellite system built from scratch by students at Portland State University. Slated to be Oregon’s first satellite, the 1U CubeSat provides flight heritage for the modular, expandable, open source, and education-friendly OreSat bus. OreSat0 paves the way for OreSat, a NASA CSLI program 2U CubeSat with a global climate science and STEM outreach mission.
Pad
Launch Pad 3B, Pacific Spaceport Complex, Alaska, USA
5th launch from Launch Pad 3B, 1st this year · 8th from Pacific Spaceport Complex, Alaska, USA
5 launches from this pad · 9 from Pacific Spaceport Complex, Alaska, USA
115 days after the previous launch from this pad
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Updates
S/C separation confirmed and signals received by clients.
Show 9 earlier updates
Liftoff of LV0009 for the Astra Spaceflight-1 mission
Nosu · 3/15/2022 · source
Scrubbed due to weather violations.
Cosmic_Penguin · 3/14/2022 · source
Webcast live
Nosu · 3/14/2022 · source
New launch time.
Cosmic_Penguin · 3/14/2022 · source
Moving to TBD March pending FAA license.
Nosu · 3/13/2022 · source
NET March 14
Cosmic_Penguin · 3/12/2022 · source
NET March 13 15:22 UTC
Nosu · 3/7/2022 · source
Moving to March TBD pending news from Astra about the ELaNa 41 launch failure investigation.
Nosu · 2/17/2022
Delayed by eight days per latest USCG Local Notice to Mariners.
Nosu · 2/10/2022 · source
Questions
When did Spaceflight Astra-1 launch?
Spaceflight Astra-1 launched on March 15, 2022. The time is known to the hour, not the minute.
Where can I watch Spaceflight Astra-1?
Coverage: Astra Rocket 3 Spaceflight Astra-1; Astra Launches Spaceflight Astra-1 Mission; SCRUB: Astra Scrubs Launch of Spaceflight Astra-1 Mission due to Weather. Watch the replay
What rocket launched Spaceflight Astra-1?
Astra Rocket 3, flown by Astra Space. Astra Rocket 3 spec sheet
Where did Spaceflight Astra-1 launch from?
Launch Pad 3B, Pacific Spaceport Complex, Alaska, USA.
What orbit did Spaceflight Astra-1 reach?
S4 CROSSOVER, one of 22 catalogued objects, reached a 477 × 544 km orbit inclined 97.5°.
How many satellites did Spaceflight Astra-1 launch?
22 payloads from this launch are catalogued, none of them still in orbit (Data from J. McDowell, planet4589.org).