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Astra pitches Bigger rocket, suborbital cargo-delivery Strategy to Air Force

The company pitches the Air Force as part of its Global Space Transport and Delivery Challenge.

Expand / The company pitches the Air Force as a part of its International Space Transportation and Delivery Challenge.

Last week, the US Air Force convened a occasion during that American firms were encouraged to pitch ideas for how they can help the army further its ambitions in space. Then, that the Air Force provided entrepreneurs the capability to contact government buyers.

Over 800 teams filed answers to four distinct challenges beneath the AFWERX plan, which attempts to nurture innovative ideas. These groups include everybody from prime government contractors (like Lockheed Martin and SpaceX) all of the way down to mainstream classes supplying UFO-propulsion-type ideas. Finally, roughly 175 teams were encouraged to present in the EngageSpace occasion on Tuesday and Wednesday of the week.

One of these teams had been Astra, the California-based launching firm trying to construct an ultralow-cost rocket capable of bringing approximately 25kg into Sun-synchronous orbit.  Included in this event, the majority of the teams failed a 10-minute personal pitch into a few Air Force and Space Force employees about their answer to a certain issue.

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