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The 2019-06-29 mission was the first of as many as five Electron missions in 2019 contracted by Spaceflight.
Spaceflight planned to perform as many as 19 launches in 2019.
Spaceflight previously purchased a dedicated Falcon 9 mission called SSO-A that launched 64 satellites in December 2018.
Firefly aims to enable newspace enterprises and increase economic activity in low Earth orbit.
Firefly has opened its doors to youth through the Base 11 Space Challenge.
Firefly Academy promotes STEM interest among youth.
Firefly commits a portion of the payload capacity on Alpha’s maiden flight to support and stimulate STEM globally.
Firefly is hosting a global competition to allow academic and educational payloads on the inaugural flight of the Firefly Alpha launch vehicle free of charge.
Firefly CEO Dr. Tom Markusic announced a competition for the use of excess capacity of the first Alpha launch.
The third-stage issue in the August 2016 Long March 4C failure was confined to the Long March 4C variant developed by the Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology (SAST).
Firefly Aerospace plans to begin manufacturing rockets in Texas while constructing a factory in Florida to produce as many as 24 Alpha rockets per year.
The Coalition for Deep Space Exploration and the Commercial Spaceflight Federation support the proposed increase in NASA spending to achieve a human lunar landing in 2024 and call for the White House and Congress to develop an overall budget and plan.
Firefly Aerospace expected to take possession of a launch site at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, formerly used by the Delta II, in June or July 2019.
Firefly Aerospace planned a first launch of its Alpha launch vehicle in December 2019 under an all-green-light schedule but expected the schedule would probably slip into 2020.
Relativity signed an agreement with Spaceflight on 2019-05-06 for a series of smallsat rideshare launches.
Relativity signed a Launch Services Agreement with Spaceflight to launch Spaceflight’s dedicated rideshares of small satellites, microsats, and cubesats to Low Earth Orbit on Relativity’s Terran 1 rocket.
Spaceflight performed a dedicated rideshare mission in December that launched 64 satellites on a single Falcon 9.
Spaceflight has provided rideshare and integration services for nearly 240 satellites from organizations in 32 countries using 10 different launch vehicles.
The Commercial Spaceflight Federation joined forces with ASTM International in 2016 to establish committee F47 to develop consensus standards for commercial spaceflight.
Spaceflight had 17 missions planned for 2019, of which two had taken place at the time of the report.