Astra Rocket 3.0
Astra's Rocket 3.0 undergoing prelaunch checks during an earlier launch attempt at Pacific Spaceport Complex - Alaska.

Small launch vehicle startup Astra will make another attempt to reach orbit in July after failing to win a DARPA launch competition earlier this year.

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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...