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Spaceflight’s planned 2019 missions involve a mix of rockets including the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV), Vega, and Electron.
Spaceflight will focus on launching smaller numbers of satellites per launch on a greater number of launches in 2019.
India’s human spaceflight program has a goal of launching a crewed spacecraft into orbit by 2022.
Peter Diamandis established the X Prize Foundation more than two decades ago to support the Ansari X Prize, a $10,000,000 award for commercial suborbital spaceflight.
On 2019-03-19 in Cedar Park, Texas, Firefly Aerospace executed a Memorandum of Understanding with Airbus Defence and Space to develop new space launch solutions for Airbus customers.
Firefly Aerospace will formulate an integrated market offering to provide Airbus customers rapid deployment of Airbus-manufactured satellites.
Firefly Aerospace and Airbus will work to develop integrated solutions intended to enable rapid deployment and replenishment of Airbus customer constellations.
The partnership between Airbus Defence and Space and Firefly Aerospace will provide Airbus customers launch options with direct access to specific orbits, operational flexibility, and short-notice launch capability.
Firefly Aerospace and Airbus will collaborate to develop integrated solutions that aim to accelerate the global small satellite market and support commercialization of cis-lunar space.
The first Firefly Alpha launch was scheduled for the end of 2019 with frequent launches planned in 2020 and beyond.
Firefly Aerospace reached an agreement with Space Florida to help fund development of a launch site at Space Launch Complex 20 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station and a launch vehicle factory just outside the gates of the Kennedy Space Center.
Firefly Aerospace hoped to start launching from Space Launch Complex 20 in 2021.
Firefly Aerospace stated the new factory will be able to produce 24 Alpha vehicles per year.
Firefly Aerospace planned a separate large-scale mass production facility for Alpha to support higher production rates.
Initial production of Firefly Aerospace’s Alpha vehicle will take place at the company’s Texas facility.
Under the Space Florida agreement, the state will match Firefly Aerospace’s infrastructure investments up to $18,900,000.
Firefly Aerospace plans to invest $52,000,000 in the factory and launch site development and to create more than 200 jobs.
Firefly Aerospace reached agreements with Space Florida and U.S. federal agencies on 2019-02-22 to build a new factory for producing and launching its rockets from Florida’s Space Coast.
The planned Firefly Aerospace factory will be a 180,000-square-foot facility located in Exploration Park on the grounds of the Kennedy Space Center but outside the center’s security perimeter.
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.