Astra Space, Inc.

Good afternoon and welcome to ASTRA's second quarter 2021 earnings conference call. Joining us today are ASTRA's founder, chairman and CEO, Chris Kemp, CFO, Kalen Brennan, and Vice President of Compliance and Deputy General Counsel, Michael Stitcher. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. After the speaker's presentation, there will be a question and answer session. To ask a question during the session, you need to press star 1 on your telephone. If you require any further assistance, please press star then 0. I would now like to turn the call over to Michael for introduction remarks.

Please go ahead. Thank you, operator. Good afternoon, everyone.

Thank you for joining us for Astra's second quarter 2021 earnings call. After the market closed, we released our financial results. The earnings release is available on the SEC's website and our investor relations website at investor.astra.com, where you can also find a link to our investor presentation. This teleconference is also being broadcast over the internet and will be archived and available on our investor relations website. During our call today, we will reference non-GAAP financial measures, which we believe to be useful to investors as our management team uses these non-GAAP financial measures to plan, monitor, and evaluate our financial performance. These non-GAAP financial measures exclude certain items and should not be considered a substitute for comparable GAAP financial measures. Aster's methods of computing these non-GAAP financial measures may differ from similar non-GAAP financial measures used by other companies. A description of these items along with the reconciliation of our non-GAAP financial measures to their most comparable GAAP financial measures can be found in our earnings release. Today's call will also contain forward-looking statements that refer to future events, including asterisk future financial outlook. When used in this call, the words anticipate, could, enable, estimate, intend, expect, believe, potential, will, should, project, and similar expressions as they relate to ASTRA are, as such, a forward-looking statement. These forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties, and, as a result, ASTRA's actual future results and performance may differ materially from those discussed in this call. We encourage you to review our filings with the SEC in which we describe the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from our current expectations. We also refer to commercial launches in this press release. When we use the phrase commercial launch, commercial revenue launch, or commercial orbital launch, we mean a launch conducted under an FAA commercial launch license. Additionally, each of our launch vehicles is noted by an asset title with the abbreviation of LV standing in for launch vehicle, followed by the serial number. For instance, our current launch vehicle is referenced as LV0006. Finally, I would like to remind everyone that this call will be recorded, and it will be made available for replay via a link available on the investor relations section of our website. With that, I would now like to turn the call over to Chris Kent, Astra's founder, chairman, and CEO. Chris?