Astra Space, Inc. is a space launch and satellite-propulsion company that completed a take-private transaction in July 2024, when it was acquired by Apogee Parent, Inc. for $0.50 per share and delisted from Nasdaq. Astra's Twitter Score is 16 out of 1000 as of August 2026, ranking #62,124 among 483,944 tracked accounts.
Astra was founded by Chris C. Kemp and Dr. Adam London, and had previously been affiliated with Holicity Inc., the special-purpose acquisition company through which it became publicly traded following a business combination completed on June 30, 2021. Before going private, Astra had also been formerly affiliated with Apollo Fusion. Its current launch vehicle under development is Rocket 4.0, and in October 2024 the Defense Innovation Unit awarded the company a contract with a ceiling of up to $44 million to support Launch System 2 and Rocket 4 development.
Astra reached orbit on November 19, 2021, delivering a United States Space Force test payload to an altitude of 500 km, and subsequently delivered 22 satellites to orbit for Spaceflight on March 15, 2022. By January 2025, the company reported having delivered more than 110 satellite-engine systems. Astra has attracted backing from ACME Capital, Advance, Airbus Ventures, Canaan Partners, Innovation Endeavors, and Marc Benioff. The account has published 687 posts and has been mentioned by 58 accounts a total of 270 times, with 128,973 followers as of August 2026 on the platform.
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The accounts that follow Astra include 83 founders, 17 angel investors, 17 influencers and 3 VCs, among them Stani, Vance Spencer, Zmanian, Roon, Sarah Guo and Dystopiabreaker.