The spaceflight startup Astra plans to arrive at circle without precedent for early August.

On Monday (July 20), the California-based company reported that its 38-foot-tall (11.6 meters) Rocket 3.1 is planned to dispatch from the Pacific Spaceport Complex on Alaska’s Kodiak Island during a six-day window that opens Aug. 2.

The rocket traveled to Kodiak a week ago in the wake of performing two static-fire tests at Astra’s California offices, company delegates said on Twitter. (Static flames test a rocket’s motors while the vehicle is fastened to the ground.)

Astra had initially planned to get its orbital wings almost five months back. Rocket 3.1’s forerunner, Rocket 3.0, was ready to lift off from Kodiak on March 2 on a crucial would have conveyed four payloads to circle and got the organization $2 million.

The cash would have originated from the U.S. Guard Advanced Projects Research Agency (DARPA), which held a two-section rivalry called DARPA Launch Challenge to support the improvement of private rockets that can dispatch little payloads effectively and without prior notice.

It wasn’t to be, be that as it may. Architects saw some possibly hazardous rocket information not long before liftoff, Rocket 3.0 remained on the ground and the prize cash went unclaimed. (Walk 2 was the last day for Astra to expert the opposition’s first leg.)

The two-phase Rocket 3.0 was harmed in late March, during arrangements for a liftoff unaffiliated with the DARPA Launch Challenge. So the organization’s first orbital endeavor tumbles to Rocket 3.1.

There’s no assurance that this dispatch will work, obviously. In the leadup to the DARPA Launch Challenge endeavor, Astra CEO Chris Kemp focused on that orbital rockets’ presentation missions are normally fruitless.

“Success for this flight means we accomplish enough to make orbit within three flights, which we have defined as at least achieving a nominal first-stage burn,” Astra delegates said by means of Twitter a month ago, alluding to the coming dispatch endeavor.

The company has not reported which payloads, assuming any, will fly on Rocket 3.1 on the upcoming mission.