DARPA’s competition to find a rapid rocket launch provider ends without a winner

Astra’s rocket on the launchpad in Alaska. | Image: DARPA DARPA’s competition to find a rocket company that can rapidly send satellites to space ended without a winner on March 2nd when the final team failed to launch by the contest’s deadline. Rocket startup Astra Space came within less than a minute of launching its brand-new rocket for the competition out of Alaska, but it had to halt the mission due to some bad data from the vehicle. As a result, the company lost out on wi