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Firefly Aerospace completed a separation test for Blue Ghost Mission 2.
Russia will have no crewed spaceflight capability for more than two years.
China’s human spaceflight agency said Shenzhou-21 astronauts Zhang Lu and Wu Fei completed a 7-hour extravehicular activity at 1135 UTC on March 16, 2026.
Firefly Aerospace's co-located engineering and manufacturing facilities in Texas are operating at a projected cadence of one Alpha vehicle per month.
NASA’s annual ISS operations spending represents nearly a third of NASA’s human spaceflight budget.
Jason Kim is the CEO of Firefly Aerospace.
On 12 March 2026 Firefly Aerospace posted on X that Alpha Flight 7 achieved nominal performance and validated key systems ahead of Firefly’s Block II configuration upgrade.
Alpha Flight 7's success validates Firefly Aerospace's improved reliability protocols and paves the way for the full Block II upgrade.
The documentary In the Black follows Firefly Aerospace’s sequence of successes and failures that led to the company reaching space on its second Alpha flight in 2022.
Alpha Flight 7 achieved nominal performance and validated key systems ahead of Firefly Aerospace’s Block II configuration upgrade.
Firefly Aerospace provided a livestream of the Alpha Flight 7 "Stairway to Seven" test flight.
Firefly completed a successful test flight.
Flight 7 was Firefly Aerospace’s first fully successful Alpha flight in nearly two years.
Attendees at the Tectonic Defense Summit watched Flight 7 on a 40-foot screen alongside former Firefly staff, including two cofounders.
Alpha Flight 7 marked Firefly Aerospace's return to flight following a five-month stand-down.
Firefly Aerospace completed a public offering during the roughly ten months between Flight 6 and Flight 7.
Firefly Space launched a satellite into a highly retrograde orbit.
Firefly Aerospace is the only commercial provider to have demonstrated the ability to launch a satellite to orbit with approximately 24-hour notice, a capability known as Responsive Space.
Sierra Space has been involved in more than 500 missions and has more than 30 years of spaceflight heritage.
Project Mercury began in October 1958 as NASA’s first human spaceflight program.