LV0009 launch
Astra's Rocket 3.3 vehicle lifts off March 15 from Kodiak Island, Alaska, carrying payloads for three customers in a mission arranged by Spaceflight.

Astra successfully returned its Rocket 3.3 vehicle to flight March 15, placing several payloads into low Earth orbit.

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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...