Here's what investors should know about rocket builder Astra as it prepares to go public

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Rocket builder Astra is preparing to go public via a SPAC in the second quarter, with CEO Chris Kemp telling CNBC how the company plans to scale its business.

Astra's material risksits filings with the Securities and Exchange CommissionAstra highlighted that it has "not yet delivered customer satellites into orbit using any of our launch vehicles or rockets, and any setbacks we may experience during our first commercial launch planned for 2021 and other demonstration and commercial missions could have a material adverse effect on our business.

The company has a future expansion to complete with the SPAC capital, beginning with more investment in its rocket factory. Astra builds 95% of the rocket in-house from raw materials, and also developed its own software for everything from manufacturing to the launch systems. That would effectively match the launch pace Rocket Lab, which has launched 97 satellites on 18 missions to date.

The company is working on a cylindrical, disc-shaped "modular spacecraft" so that customers can integrate satellite sensors and technology demonstrations directly into Astra's rocket. "That's the current state of the industry, and it sucks," he said. "It's like putting a FedEx truck on a plane and flying it to New York and then driving it back to Los Angeles, and then driving the truck off a cliff."

"Our entire system packs into four shipping containers, which we can put on a C-130 Hercules [aircraft], on a truck, on a ship – and we've done all of those things already," Kemp said.

 

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