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 hoped to start launching from Space Launch Complex 20 in 2021.
Firefly Aerospace will invest $52,000,000 in its Florida operations.
Firefly Aerospace’s mass production manufacturing facility in Exploration Park will produce 24 Alpha vehicles per year.
Firefly Aerospace executed a binding term sheet with Space Florida to establish business operations at Cape Canaveral Spaceport, including launch operations at Space Launch Complex 20 and manufacturing facilities at Exploration Park, Florida.
Space Florida will match Firefly Aerospace’s infrastructure investments up to $18,900,000 via the Florida Department of Transportation Spaceport Improvement Program.
SSL worked with Spaceflight Inc., which secured two rideshares that will launch with Nusantara Satu.
Thales Alenia Space and Spaceflight announced the LeoStella joint venture in March 2018 as part of a $150,000,000 Series C investment round for Spaceflight to support development of the BlackSky constellation.
LeoStella will be responsible for building the BlackSky constellation after the first four satellites that Spaceflight built.
Spaceflight has an agreement with Rocket Lab to fly payloads on three Electron launches that were scheduled for late 2018 and early 2019 but have not taken place yet.
Spaceflight purchased a SpaceX Falcon 9 that, in December, launched 64 satellites for a variety of customers.
Selection for NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services program enables Firefly Aerospace to compete for task orders worth up to $2,600,000,000 over 10 years to deliver payloads to the moon.
Firefly Aerospace executed a Launch and Brokerage Services Agreement with Spaceflight on 2018-12-20.
Spaceflight launched its first dedicated rideshare mission, SSO-A, by buying a Falcon 9 and using it to launch 64 smallsats for a variety of customers.
Spaceflight Industries contracted with Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research (INPE) on 2018-12-18 to launch the Amazonia-1 Earth observation satellite on a PSLV in mid-2020.
Venture Class Launch Services contracts in 2015 were also awarded to Firefly Space Systems and Virgin Galactic.
Spaceflight Industries procured the 2018-12-03 Falcon 9 launch.
Spaceflight purchased the Falcon 9 mission in 2015.
The Falcon 9 flying the SSO-A mission for Spaceflight Industries is scheduled to launch on 2018-12-03 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
BlackSky Global launched a demonstration mission called Pathfinder-1 in 2016.
BlackSky Global has a satellite named Global-2 scheduled to launch 2018-12-02 on SpaceX’s SmallSat Express mission.