{"id":8679,"date":"2023-04-25T23:14:17","date_gmt":"2023-04-25T15:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/astra-received-new-launch-task-order-from-us-space-force-for-rocket-4\/"},"modified":"2023-04-25T23:14:17","modified_gmt":"2023-04-25T15:14:17","slug":"astra-received-new-launch-task-order-from-us-space-force-for-rocket-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/astra-received-new-launch-task-order-from-us-space-force-for-rocket-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Astra Received New Launch Task Order From US Space Force for Rocket 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\" itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.satnow.com\/news\/astra_1_638180318342271458.png\" width=\"712\" height=\"377\" alt=\"Astra Received New Launch Task Order From US Space Force for Rocket 4\" class=\"imageload removeImageattr\" data-original=\"https:\/\/cdn.satnow.com\/news\/astra_1_638180318342271458.png\" style=\"\"><meta itemprop=\"url\" content=\"https:\/\/cdn.satnow.com\/news\/astra_1_638180318342271458.png\"><meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"712\"><meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"377\"><\/p>\n<p>Astra Space announced that it has been awarded a launch task order for Rocket 4 through the United States Space Force\u2019s Orbital Services Program (OSP)-4 contract.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Space Force deliberately structured the OSP-4 contract to leverage emerging launch solutions for mission partners like the DoD Space Test Program,\u201d said Lt. Col. Justin Beltz, chief of Space Systems Command\u2019s Small Launch and Targets Division. \u201cToday\u2019s award reflects the tremendous promise the industry is bringing to the table with systems like Rocket 4.&#8221; &#8220;We look forward to working with Astra to make this launch a success.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The STP-S29B mission is a Category 2 Mission Assurance launch, which will entail substantial efforts from Astra in tandem with the Government team and its independent mission assurance contractors to support a mission designed for success.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSTP-S29B demands a higher level of mission assurance than previous Astra launches and therefore represents a significant increase in Astra\u2019s coordination with the Space Force to perform a launch designed for mission success,\u201d said Dr. Thomas Williams, senior director of Federal Sales at Astra. \u201cAstra\u2019s ability to compete for this mission was based on the tremendous work that our team has done to design a repeatably reliable Rocket 4 and our previous experience successfully delivering multi-manifest missions to their desired orbits.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Click here to know more about Astra&#8217;s Thrusters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astra Space announced that it has been awarded a launch task order for Rocket 4 through the United States Space Force\u2019s Orbital Services Program (OSP)-4 contract. \u201cThe Space Force deliberately structured the OSP-4 contract to leverage emerging launch solutions for mission partners like the DoD Space Test Program,\u201d said Lt. Col. Justin Beltz, chief of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[26,25,20,36],"class_list":["post-8679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ground","tag-launch","tag-satellite","tag-thrusters"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8679"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}