📆 2021, #AstraSpace went public at a "pro-forma enterprise value of approximately $2.1 billion" 💰.The company's stock even traded above 📈 this valuation. But then, rockets started failing 💥. Only two of the seven launches of the company's "Rocket 3" vehicle were successful.
It faces stiff competition from #RocketLab, #Firefly, #ABLSpace and #StokeSpace. Additionally, all of these small launch companies have been undercut in price 〽️ by #SpaceX https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/03/after-astra-loses-99-percent-of-its-value-founders-take-rocket-firm-private/

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Contracts worth more than $10 billion 💰. 27 companies signed up for an "industry day" 🤑. "#Price is always a factor because we want to be good stewards of #taxpayer dollars. We’ve saved almost 50 percent 〽️ over what the older prices were like for the Delta Heavy" https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/03/the-gold-rush-for-the-next-round-of-military-launch-contracts-has-started

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By @sciguyspace 🥈 To #equal #SpaceX's total of 60 #launches in 2022, #ULA would have to count up every one of its launches since the spring of 📆 2015 https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/12/top-us-launch-companies-of-2022-the-ars-technica-power-ranking/2/

#UnitedLaunchAlliance #RocketLab #NorthropGrumman #VirginOrbit #Firefly #BlueOrigin #RelativitySpace #ABLSpace #Astra - This list could have easily stretched to 15 or even 20 companies in the United States that are #attempting to build #orbital launch vehicles

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