Astra launch scrub
Astra’s Rocket 3.3 vehicle briefly ignited its first stage engines but shut them down before liftoff because of what the company later called a minor telemetry issue.

Astra Space aborted and then scrubbed a launch of its Rocket 3.3 small launch vehicle Feb. 7 seconds before liftoff.

This post is only available to members.

Jeff Foust has more than a decade of experience writing about space policy, entrepreneurial ventures and regulatory affairs. In 2001, he established spacetoday.net to aggregate and summarize the day's space-related news stories. In 2003, he started The...