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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Firefly Aerospace announced the Dedicated Research and Education Accelerator Mission (DREAM) as a global competition to host academic and educational payloads on the inaugural flight of the Firefly Alpha launch vehicle.
The partnership includes work to support development of Firefly Aerospace’s Alpha launch vehicle, which is slated to make its first flight in early 2020.
Noosphere Ventures invested in Firefly Aerospace in 2017 to obtain launch capability sized to deploy constellations of remote sensing satellites into dedicated orbits for rapid revisit.
Noosphere Venture Partners provided a lifeline to Firefly Aerospace in 2017 when the small launch vehicle developer was running out of money.
Firefly Aerospace will evolve Alpha over the course of 2020 and possibly into early 2021 while preparing to introduce Beta in 2021.
Firefly Aerospace's debut Alpha rocket, set to launch in the first quarter of 2020, will feature 3D-printed components from Aerojet Rocketdyne on its first-stage Reaver engines.
Firefly Aerospace's long-term goal is to produce Gamma, a winged reusable spaceplane that would launch a rocket into space, with Gamma not expected to be ready until around 2024 or 2025.
Firefly Aerospace is advertising Alpha launches for $15,000,000.
Relativity announced customer agreements to support Telesat’s LEO constellation, to launch mu Space’s first LEO satellite, and to launch Spaceflight Industries’ dedicated smallsat rideshares.
SpaceX launched 64 smallsats on a dedicated Falcon 9 mission for smallsat aggregator Spaceflight in December 2018.
Brio launched in December 2018 on Spaceflight Inc.’s SSO-A mission aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9.
BlackSky Global filed an FCC application on 2019-07-25 seeking a license for four satellites it said would launch on the SSLV in 2019-11-01.
Land across the street from the OneWeb Satellites factory will host a groundbreaking later 2019 for a Firefly Aerospace launch vehicle factory.
Ruag Space signed a contract with Firefly Aerospace to provide payload adapters for Firefly’s small launch vehicles.
Firefly Aerospace is building a rocket called Firefly Alpha that is intended to launch 630 kg to a 500-kilometer sun-synchronous orbit.
Firefly Aerospace, Inc. is an Austin, Texas–based space launch provider that develops small and medium-sized launch vehicles for commercial launches to orbit.
On 2019-07-09 Firefly Aerospace signed an Intellectual Property and Engineering Support Agreement with Israel Aerospace Industries for technology based on the Beresheet lunar lander.
Firefly Aerospace is one of nine companies selected by NASA to participate in the Commercial Lunar Payload Services program to deliver science payloads to the surface of the Moon.
Firefly Aerospace plans to work with Israel Aerospace Industries to develop lunar landers for NASA.
Firefly Aerospace announced its partnership with Israel Aerospace Industries on 2019-07-09.