Talk:Astra (American spaceflight company)

Requested move 27 February 2020

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The result of the move request was: moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) —Nnadigoodluck🇳🇬 13:45, 5 March 2020 (UTC)

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Astra Space → Astra, Inc. – This company is called "Astra" or "Astra, Inc.", not "Astra Space". Rename to "Astra, Inc." à la Tesla, Inc. --Soumyabrata (talk • subpages) 11:30, 27 February 2020 (UTC)

I agree 2001:18C0:61C:700:A86F:24D7:2D04:E244 (talk) 08:32, 1 March 2020 (UTC)

Seems to be the best solution (Wikipedia:Naming conventions (companies)). --mfb (talk) 10:35, 1 March 2020 (UTC)

Support Agree because its most like the WP:COMMONNAME. OkayKenji ^{(talk page)} 12:42, 1 March 2020 (UTC)

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Semi-protected edit request on 2 March 2020

2001:18C0:61C:700:2C7E:26E7:2B55:C824 (talk) 23:31, 2 March 2020 (UTC)

Please change September 2016 to October 2016 2001:18C0:61C:700:2C7E:26E7:2B55:C824 (talk) 23:31, 2 March 2020 (UTC)

• {{not done}} because the citation you provided is unavailable. Thank you. --Soumyabrata (talk • subpages) 04:58, 3 March 2020 (UTC)

The website works for me.  Done --mfb (talk) 08:42, 3 March 2020 (UTC)

HELP ADMINISTRATOR, HELP ADMINISTRATOR, HELP ADMINISTRATOR, Soumyabrata prevents me from telling the truth about this article. MFB you saw my reference which was rejected by Soumyabrata. Can you notify an administrator. HELP, HELP, HELP,|answered=no|ans=no 2001:18C0:61C:700:849C:3108:509A:1CC (talk) 08:52, 3 March 2020 (UTC)

Soumyabrata, thinks he's God and don't want us to tell the truth about this article. Thank you mfb. 2001:18C0:61C:700:849C:3108:509A:1CC (talk) 09:02, 3 March 2020 (UTC)

Soumyabrata says my quote is not available. Which is entirely false. Anyone can access it. Besides, mfb had access to it. 2001:18C0:61C:700:849C:3108:509A:1CC (talk) 09:06, 3 March 2020 (UTC)

Calm down. Sometimes websites don't load for whatever reason, or they are down temporarily. That can happen. Don't assume malice when bad luck is a perfectly plausible explanation. Besides: It's not a critical issue if it was September or October. --mfb (talk) 09:59, 3 March 2020 (UTC)

Astra themselves says October [1]. OkayKenji ^{(talk page)} 15:49, 3 March 2020 (UTC)

"scrubbed the DARPA launch challenge"?

@Soumya-8974: I interpret the article as just another day of delay. The title is confusing but the article makes it clear that they are still part of the challenge. --mfb (talk) 10:00, 3 March 2020 (UTC)

Haven't been following this a lot but this article says they may not be part of the challenge (DARPA?) anymore. OkayKenji ^{(talk page)} 15:51, 3 March 2020 (UTC)

SUCCESS, not FAILURES: The launch will be the third for Astra, coming after two launches in July and November 2018. Both launched from the PSCA in Alaska. These were originally believed to be failures. However, Astra stated that the first was successful, and the second was only "shorter than planned". Neither were designed to reach orbit, as they didn’t have functioning second stages. Cordialement. 2001:18C0:61C:700:3DC6:63EE:9943:BFBE (talk) 06:00, 4 March 2020 (UTC)

References

Okay, so they still launch, just missed the launch challenge parameters. I updated the article. (@IP: This is about the third launch only) --mfb (talk) 07:01, 4 March 2020 (UTC)

@ mfb: Why updated only the third launch? 2001:18C0:61C:700:3DC6:63EE:9943:BFBE (talk) 08:24, 4 March 2020 (UTC)

This discussion here is only about the third launch. Start a separate discussion if there is something else that needs to be discussed. --mfb (talk) 02:43, 5 March 2020 (UTC)

First launch and second launch

@ mfb: Why updated only the third launch? 2001:18C0:61C:700:3DC6:63EE:9943:BFBE (talk) 08:24, 4 March 2020 (UTC)

This discussion here is only about the third launch. Start a separate discussion if there is something else that needs to be discussed. --mfb (talk) 02:43, 5 March 2020 (UTC)

SUCCESS, not FAILURES: the launch will be the third for Astra, coming after two launches in July and November 2018. Both launched from the PSCA in Alaska. These were originally believed to be failures. However, Astra stated that the first was successful, and the second was only "shorter than planned". Neither were designed to reach orbit, as they didn’t have functioning second stages. -- 2001:18C0:61C:700:4CA4:B512:742:DD58 (talk) 04:00, 5 March 2020 (UTC)

References

Semi-protected edit request on 21 March 2020

Addition launch date — CRS-20 (talk) 00:42, 21 March 2020 (UTC)

 Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. Alucard 16_{❯❯❯ chat?} 01:47, 21 March 2020 (UTC)

Rocket 3.0: https://spaceflightnow.com/launch-schedule/ — CRS-20 (talk) 15:52, 21 March 2020 (UTC)

 Done OkayKenji ^{(talk page)} 02:38, 22 March 2020 (UTC)

Possible future launches

Date	Orbit
October, 2020	SSO
January, 2021	SSO
March, 2021	LEO
April, 2021	SSO
June, 2021	LEO
July, 2021	SSO
September, 2021	LEO

Per https://astra.com/?start_date=2020-10-01T00:00:00.000Z& OkayKenji ^{(talk page)} 03:23, 24 March 2020 (UTC)

And now there are reports of an anomaly...https://kmxt.org/2020/03/anomaly-at-pacific-spaceport-complex-launch-rehearsal-no-injuries-as-a-result/ OkayKenji ^{(talk page)} 04:16, 24 March 2020 (UTC)

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B-Class suggestions

Hello, I am the "reviewer" of the article. Here's the list of the problems that I saw:

• Some of the sources have their formatting broken. The sources are reliable for now. (ex. September 2020, Mike Wall 12)
• Lone sentences should be merged to a paragraph, with linking devices (because, as, but, etc.)
• There are some inappropriate use of dashes and capital letters, see Wikipedia:Simplified Manual of Style for more details
• A few in-line tags should be resolved , example being ^{[citation needed]}

Other than that, the article should be a B-Class, change the grade when you feel that the article deserved that. Hopefully, you can push this article to a Good Article, in that case, I see you there! CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 10:45, 1 October 2021 (UTC)

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Splitting Astra Rocket

Seeing as the Rocket series (i.e. Rocket 1 through 3.3) have some pretty substantial history now, and with space launch increasingly in the rear-view mirror for the company, I believe it would make sense to split them off into a separate page, where they might get a nicer treatment (i.e. infobox at the top of the page). I will be starting a draft. Sub31k (talk) 21:30, 19 August 2023 (UTC)

Can you share the Draft? (EDIT: I found the article) Redacted II (talk) 17:49, 30 November 2023 (UTC)