/sci/ - Science & Math

>>15228066
>24km altitude
>0km/s horizontal dV
>"""space"""

>>15028081
Hi, yes. That's me. Astra's long term roadmap was three phases:
>Phase 1: launch
Lyon spent a lot of time personally defending the choice to use a pressure fed upper stage engine which is proooooobably related to Kemp shitcanning him.
>Phase 2: selling satellite buses and components
basically the Apollo Fusion bits of the company
>Phase 3: a multitenant megaconstellation with on orbit compute and compatible with glownigger requirements
SpaceX Starshield and Starlink V2 destroy this.

Astra's long term valuation was based on them pulling down billion dollars a year in Phase 3 and having a steady stream of launches including NASA and OneWeb. That's all unbelievably fucked now. NASDAQ will delist them in April unless the stock price recovers (lol) and that's basically curtains.