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Firefly Aerospace successfully launched a set of NASA-sponsored cubesats on its Alpha rocket two weeks before the 2024-07-17 leadership change.
Firefly Aerospace planned three more launches in the same year as the 2024-07-17 leadership change, with the next launch identified as a dedicated commercial mission for Lockheed Martin.
Bill Weber is no longer serving as CEO of Firefly Aerospace, effective 2024-07-17.
Firefly Aerospace is completing final readiness milestones for its first Blue Ghost lunar mission to the Moon scheduled to launch in 2024-10-01.
The mission called Noise of Summer completed the payload deployment sequence under Firefly Aerospace’s Venture-Class Launch Services Demonstration 2 (VCLS Demo 2) contract with NASA.
Firefly Aerospace is ramping up for a responsive on-orbit Elytra mission that will launch on Alpha FLTA007 later in 2024.
Firefly Aerospace successfully launched its Alpha Flight 5 (FLTA005) rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base.
Alpha Flight 5 (FLTA005) lifted off from Firefly’s SLC-2 launch site at Vandenberg Space Force Base at 9:04 p.m. PDT on 2024-07-03.
The collaboration between Swedish Space Corporation and Firefly Aerospace establishes an orbital launch service in Europe supporting commercial, civil, and defense customers.
Firefly Aerospace will launch satellites from Esrange Space Center starting in 2026.
Firefly Aerospace will become the first U.S. company to launch from continental Europe.
Swedish Space Corporation and Firefly Aerospace signed a collaborative agreement to jointly launch satellites with Firefly’s Alpha rocket from Esrange Space Center in Sweden.
Firefly Aerospace plans East and West Coast launch capabilities for Alpha and intends to increase Alpha’s launch cadence to a monthly basis by 2026 after launching up to four times in 2024 and six times in 2025.
Slick-2 has been converted to launch Firefly Alpha rockets, with a launch scheduled for later this week.
Mojave Air and Space Port hosted SpaceShipOne's first suborbital spaceflight 20 years ago.
Firefly Aerospace executed the VICTUS NOX mission with a 24-hour launch notice to demonstrate rapid launch capability.
Budget cuts after Apollo forced NASA to find a new direction for human spaceflight, resulting in the shuttle program.
Suborbital human spaceflight has not become the stepping-stone to low-cost orbital launch as envisioned decades earlier.
NASA welcomed greater public participation in spaceflight during the shuttle era as a means of building support.
Firefly Aerospace will operate a launch control center, a horizontal integration facility, and administrative office space on Virginia’s Eastern Shore to support Wallops Island launch operations.