Operating offices in San Francisco and Washington D.C., Astra Space Inc (formrtly Ventions LLC) is an aerospace development company specializing in the development of small-scale launch vehicle components. The company has seen significant growth since its inception and is developing projects through both DARPA and NASA funding. Specific technologies that the company is developing are: small scale rocket engines, electric motor and turbine driven pumps, low cost and light weight avionics, high pmf launch vehicle stages, and in space propulsion technologies for cube and small satellites.