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Astra, Rocket Lab win launch contracts - SpaceNews

Astra, Rocket Lab win launch contracts - SpaceNews

Astra, Rocket Lab win launch contracts - SpaceNews
Feb 27, 2021 36 secs

WASHINGTON — Astra has won a NASA contract to launch a small constellation of Earth science cubesats, while General Atomics selected Rocket Lab for the launch of a small satellite with a NOAA hosted payload.

24 that it selected Rocket Lab to launch an Orbital Test Bed satellite it developed carrying the Argos-4 Advanced Data Collection System (A-DCS) hosted payload.

NOAA arranged for the launch of the payload through the Hosted Payload Solutions contract vehicle run by the Space Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center.

The contract is the second in as many weeks awarded by General Atomics for the launch of an Orbital Test Bed satellite.

18 to launch a satellite carrying the Multi-Angle Imager for Aerosols hosted payload, a NASA Earth sciences instrument.

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