Astra Space Inc at Bank of America STAARS Summit Transcript
Fantastic. Thank you all. So Chris Kemp, the Founder, CEO, Chairman of Astra is here with us. And I think his deck has just about loaded. But maybe just as a quick intro to the deck, Astra is brand new, right? I mean, sort of in the last 18 months or 2 years, it kind of popped up, I don't want to say out of nowhere, but very quickly it's a public company. Maybe if you can tell us a little bit about the genesis of the company.
I see a few friends here from Planet. It was really in the summer of 2015 that I had finished getting my company that I had started ingested by Oracle, and I was really asking myself, do I want to go work for Oracle? I did not.
And so my friends were, that year, launching very small satellites. And there was a SpaceX rocket, which did not work, and then an orbital rocket. I believe, it did not work. And so I went in to try to really help them evaluate all
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