Two strikes and Astra is out of the satellite launching game satellites on its small Rocket 3 design. Two failed missions this year from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station have the publicly-traded California startup ditching the Rocket 3 to focus on its larger Rocket 4.NASA has a $7.8 million contract with Astra to launch a constellation of six hurricane-tracking satellites for NASA. Two satellites were lost in the June mission failure. The transition into and expansion of the commercial spaceflight industry is still ongoing. There is still a risk but potential benefits too. "You have a higher reward of being able to get up there fast and cheaper. And this is part of the process and NASA will adapt. And will get those up there and Astra will continue with new vehicles," Dale Ketcham with Space Florida said.Astra says it's in talks with NASA to still deploy the remaining four hurricane satellites. But at the earliest, it'll be next year. All six of the hurricane-tracking satellites known as TROPICS were supposed to have been placed in low earth orbit last monthExperts don't see this as the end of the small rocket, small payload model. "I think this turmoil is illustrative of the nature of the marketplace in which these vehicles are being developed. Some will survive, many will not and that's what happens in the marketplace," Ketcham said.