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Owari da.

>Astra founders warn of "imminent bankruptcy." The founders of satellite propulsion and launch vehicle company Astra have sharply cut their offer to take the company private, warning of “imminent bankruptcy” if the company doesn’t accept their new proposal, Space News reports. In a US Securities and Exchange Commission filing on Tuesday, Astra released a letter sent three days earlier to a special committee of the company’s board of directors from Chris Kemp and Adam London, the chief executive and chief technology officer, slashing by two-thirds their offer to buy outstanding shares of the publicly traded company.

>Pray I don't alter it further ... In November, Kemp and London proposed to buy Astra shares at $1.50, approximately double their price at the time they announced the deal. In the new proposal, they are offering only $0.50 per share. Kemp and London cited several reasons for cutting the share price. They included continued cash burn by the company since they tendered the original offer and higher “non-operating expenses” as the company used multiple third-party advisers to assess options. Under the revised proposal, Kemp and London said they anticipated raising $45 million overall to take Astra private, of which $7.7 million would go to shareholders. (submitted by Ken the Bin)

https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/03/rocket-report-astra-warns-of-imminent-bankruptcy-falcon-heavy-launch-delay/

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>>15876810
Second stage prop leaks, eh?
>ghost of LV0010 pointing and laughing

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>>15809591
What's to become of the remaining Tropics duo?

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TROPICS is finally launched.

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>>15280401
I did apply there for a reason. I thought they had real potential. It was that fucking upper stage.

>>15280404
LV0011 and LV0012 will be.

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>trio
:'(

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>>15222409
With Jews you lose (upper stage fuel due to bad design choices).

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>>15114522
Oof. Kodiak is a much more forgiving spaceport than KSC. Maybe we'll see them again in a few months.

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>>15069267
I am uncomfortably familiar with this feel.

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>>15034464
They're the visible result of Moore's Law. Satellites used to be big because they had very primitive computers, or even analog film cameras with orbital canister drops! Now a cubesat with some clever antenna technology can fully replace a large satellite for many missions, or a teeny little 1U can at least be an entry level mission. This is what TROPICS is all about. Larger satellites are now driven by things other than electronics: instrument size, power budget, propulsion system, etc.

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>>15026881
Good. Lyon was one of the biggest roadblocks to getting anything useful done. He was just as software UI obsessed as you'd expect from an iToddler, and just as blind to hardware faults.

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>>14883074
TROPICS could be observing Hurricane Ian right now and giving us new insights into the properties of storms, but Astra-chan is a lazy fucking NEET who can't make it to orbit properly.

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>>14841003
yes

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>>14723962
lmao

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>>14657188
Melta posted a bunch of stuff here that never ended up on his profile, same with sbarky

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When do we get to learn what's up with TROPICS? Astra has two more flights to fuck up, when will they get to try again?

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I think Astra is going to be forced to try for upper stage reusability because their intended-to-be-marginally-good-enough expendable upper stage design isn't working. It needs more structure, more mass, more capability, and more budget... so the only way to keep launch price/cadence sane is reuse. This implies a substantially larger vehicle for Rocket 5 because spaceplanes have a minimum gauge problem due to tile thickness/density.
>but anon the boosters are bigger
Do you know how cheap aluminum, kerosene, and LOX are compared to a lost payload? Adding in SMART reuse and moving all the flight computers to the upper stage would solve the problem from an economic perspective.

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I think the upper stage guys are finally getting to the bottom of the recurring fuel pressure problems. They're reviewing data all the way back to LV0007 so far.

>>14581992
Firefly. There are ex Firefly people working at Astra but not the reverse and Astra has multiple years of runway with cash on hand.

>>14582007
Kuiper is a mismanaged joke. Amazon is not good at space in the same ways BO is not good at space, for the same reason.

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>>14570003
It could be worth throwing in ten bucks for the laughs.
Like betting on the ponies, you don't really go in expecting to win but having some skin in the game makes it way more fun.

I'd really like an /sfg/ prediction market, half of you say the absolute dumbest shit and it'd nice to force people to publically lock in their predictions.

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One down, two to go

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