Firefly Aerospace is a Texas-based private aerospace company that provides end-to-end space transportation services. It specializes in the development of small to medium-lift launch vehicles like the Alpha rocket and lunar landers such as Blue Ghost, along with on-orbit services using its Elytra space tug. Firefly works with partners like NASA and ESA, securing contracts for commercial lunar payload services and missions to the far side of the Moon. The company aims to provide affordable and reliable space access for government and commercial customers, contributing to lunar and cislunar exploration.
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The NG-19 launch will be the last flight of the current version of the Antares rocket as Northrop Grumman works with Firefly Aerospace on a new Antares version that replaces the Ukrainian-built first stage and Russian engines.
Spaceflight and LeoStella provide services and expertise that enable end-to-end support for BlackSky’s constellation.
The Spaceport Company’s sea-based platforms are intended to host small launch vehicles in size up to Firefly Aerospace’s Alpha, which can place about one ton into orbit.
Millennium and Firefly Space Transport Services won contracts from U.S. Space Systems Command in 2022 to perform a Tactically Responsive Space mission.
Firefly Aerospace won a $17,600,000 contract in September to launch a Millennium Space small satellite to low Earth orbit as part of the Space Force’s Tactically Responsive Space program.
Firefly Aerospace’s expendable Alpha small launcher made its first launch attempt in September 2021 but did not reach orbit due to a first-stage engine failure during ascent.
Firefly Aerospace’s second Alpha test flight in October 2022 successfully reached orbit but deployed satellites into lower orbits than originally planned.
Mitsui and Co. acquired Spaceflight Inc. in 2020 with Yamasa Co.
Tiphaine Louradour succeeds Curt Blake as chief executive of Spaceflight Inc.
Spaceflight Inc. has hired Tiphaine Louradour as its new chief executive.
The agreement between Spaceflight and Isar Aerospace includes an option for an additional dedicated launch in 2025 that could use a launchpad Isar is developing at the Guiana Space Center near Kourou, French Guiana.
Spaceflight has until April 2024 to exercise Isar Aerospace’s 2025 launch option.
Isar Aerospace signed a multi-launch services agreement with Spaceflight Inc.
Spaceflight reached an agreement in August 2022 to launch its OTVs on Arianespace’s Vega launch vehicles, including the next-generation Vega C rocket.
Spaceflight Inc. successfully launched the experimental Sherpa-AC OTV in 2022 for hosted payloads.
Spaceflight Inc. has delivered more than 550 spacecraft across 55 launches using rideshare and dedicated launch services.
Spaceflight Inc. is preparing Sherpa-ES, a higher-energy bipropellant, high delta-V OTV designed to enable smallsat delivery anywhere in cislunar space.
Spaceflight Inc. previously launched five Sherpa OTVs that carried more than 50 payloads to space.
Spaceflight Inc. signed an agreement with Maritime Launch Services Inc. to launch up to five Sherpa Orbital Transfer Vehicles (OTVs).
Spaceflight Inc. successfully launched the experimental Sherpa-LTC OTV in 2022, which features chemical propulsion.