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Firefly Aerospace signed a contract with L3Harris in August for up to 20 Alpha launches over five years.
Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lunar lander completed environmental testing and was returned to Firefly headquarters for final preparations as of the 2024-10-29 Lunar Exploration Analysis Group meeting.
The Series D funding round values Firefly Aerospace at more than $2,000,000,000.
Firefly Aerospace demonstrated responsive space capability with the Alpha launch of the Space Force’s Victus Nox mission in September 2023, launching a spacecraft on a 24-hour callup.
Firefly Aerospace’s valuation increased from $1,500,000,000 in November 2023 to more than $2,000,000,000 after the Series D round.
In 1989, President George H.W. Bush announced the Space Exploration Initiative (SEI) to support human spaceflight and plan a human return to the Moon followed by expeditions to Mars.
Shanghai Aerospace Technology Co., Ltd., a small satellite company controlled by the state-owned Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology, developed the PIESAT-2 satellites.
BlackSky, then part of Spaceflight Industries, created the LeoStella joint venture with Thales Alenia Space in 2018 as part of a $150,000,000 Series C round.
Trump redirected NASA’s key human spaceflight destination from Mars back to the Moon.
The China Manned Space Engineering Office selected teams from the China Academy of Space Technology and the Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology to develop prototype lunar rovers on 2024-10-29.
Voyager Space has over 35 years of spaceflight heritage and has completed over 2,000 customer missions.
In 1963, the US Air Force pursued military manned spaceflight efforts that surpassed those of the Army and Navy.
The distribution list of the MOL meeting minutes included Wernher von Braun and other notable spaceflight figures.
US Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara de-emphasized military manned spaceflight in favor of civilian space exploration during his tenure.
China operates human spaceflight missions using the Shenzhou spacecraft to the Tiangong space station.
True Anomaly and Firefly will remain on call until the U.S. Space Force provides a notice to launch.
Firefly Aerospace provides launch, lunar, and on-orbit services including small- to medium-lift launch vehicles, lunar landers, and orbital vehicles that support missions from low Earth orbit to the surface of the Moon.
The first Firefly Alpha mission under the agreement will deploy True Anomaly’s Jackal Autonomous Orbital Vehicle for the U.S. Space Force Space Systems Command’s VICTUS HAZE Tactically Responsive Space mission targeted for 2025.
Upon receiving the notice to launch, Firefly will have 24 hours to transport the payload fairing to the pad, mate the fairing to Alpha, fuel the rocket, and launch within the first available window.
Firefly launched the U.S. Space Force’s VICTUS NOX mission in September 2023 following a 24-hour notice.