Astra's first orbital test flight launched without a payload from Kodiak, Alaska. A guidance-system oscillation caused the rocket to drift off its planned trajectory, prompting the flight safety system to command an engine shutdown about 30 seconds after liftoff; the vehicle crashed near the pad.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 1st
- of 7 Astra Rocket 3 flights
- Date and time
- 12 September 2020, 03:19 UTC
- Rocket
- Astra Rocket 3
- Builder
- Astra
- Launch site
- Launch Pad 3B, Pacific Spaceport Complex, Alaska, USA
- Payload
- Test Flight
- Launches in 2020
- 71st of 114