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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NG-19 will be the last Cygnus spacecraft to launch on the current version of the Antares rocket as Northrop Grumman works with Firefly Aerospace on a new Antares first stage.
Spaceflight signed an agreement with Maritime Launch Services to launch up to five Sherpa Orbital Transfer Vehicles (OTVs).
Aegis Aerospace Inc. delivered the Regolith Adherence Characterization – 1st Flight (RAC-1) lunar payload and 15 customer material experiments to Firefly Aerospace for integration onto the Blue Ghost Mission 1 lunar lander.
Spaceflight Inc. has delivered more than 550 spacecraft across 55 launches on a variety of launch vehicles.
Spaceflight Inc. signed an agreement with Maritime Launch Services Inc. to launch as many as five Sherpa Orbital Transfer Vehicles from Spaceport Nova Scotia aboard the Cyclone-4M starting in 2025.
Kleos Space contracted Spaceflight Inc. for launch and integration services for the Observer Mission, with those services provided through ISISPACE.
With the Transporter 6 mission, Spaceflight Inc. completed 10 missions in 2022.
Spaceflight Inc. worked with launch vehicle providers SpaceX, Rocket Lab, PSLV/NSIL, and Astra in 2022.
Spaceflight Inc. helped extend customer constellations including Kleos, Astrocast, and BlackSky in 2022.
Spaceflight Inc. plans to execute 10 to 15 missions in 2023 and to work with additional launch vehicle providers.
NASA selected Spaceflight Inc. to provide launch services for the agency’s Venture-Class Acquisition of Dedicated and Rideshare (VADR) missions.
Spaceflight Inc. moved into a new 39,000-square-foot office headquarters and integration facility in Bellevue, Washington.
Spaceflight Inc. conducted the debut launch of its experimental hosted-payload OTV Sherpa-AC in May 2022.
Spaceflight Inc. is providing launch and integration services for Kleos Space’s fourth satellite cluster, Observer, through ISISPACE Group on SpaceX’s Transporter 6 rideshare mission.
Northrop Grumman agreed to buy at least three Falcon 9 launches to fly Cygnus cargo spacecraft as a stopgap between Antares retirement and a new version developed with Firefly Aerospace.
Astrocast provided a 3U spacecraft and four satellites from Spaceflight Inc., USA were separated subsequently on the PSLV-C54 mission.
Northrop Grumman is working with Firefly Aerospace on the Antares 330, a new version of the vehicle that will replace the existing first stage with one developed by Firefly using new engines.
Firefly Aerospace achieved a successful orbital launch of its Alpha launch vehicle in the month prior to 2022-11-02.
As Chief Operating Officer, Dan Fermon will continue work on expanding Firefly Aerospace facilities in Texas and California and completing development of the company’s Florida launch and manufacturing facilities.
Firefly Aerospace announced a joint partnership with Northrop Grumman Corporation to provide an American-built first-stage upgrade for the Antares rocket and to develop a new medium launch vehicle (MLV) for commercial, civil, and national security space launch markets.