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Transcendence
Transcendence is ASTRA's most ambitious goal: crossing the Kárman Line with a fully self designed, hybrid engine rocket. We've been working towards Transcendence since the inception of ASTRA and are currently going through the final hotfire tests.
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Descendence
Descendence is the successor of the Ascendance project, improving on body construction, recovery systems and avionics. The first Descendence launch was again conducted domestically near Karlshöfen, Germany—with the next launch scheduled for September 2026. Thank you to NextGen Space Education for providing us with their launch services next to Bremen! Find out more about launch service: https://nextgenspaceeducation.de/launch
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Ascendance
Ascendance marked ASTRA's first domestically conducted launch near Karlshöfen, Germany—aswell as first solid motor launch and lightest rocket ever built.
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Phoenix
Phoenix emerged as successor to the previous KARMA design which failed to launch. Phoenix was initially known as KARMA 2.0 and is ASTRA's first rocket to successfully launch. It was designed to test key subsystems for Transcendence and partake in EuRoC's 9 km category, but was later launched at FAR in California
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