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Firefly operates launch, lunar, and orbital vehicles designed to provide regular, responsive access beyond geosynchronous orbit.
The DIU contract with Firefly supports the Sinequone project that aims to deliver cost-effective, responsive access to xGEO through both launch and orbital transfer services.
Firefly is preparing a responsive on-orbit Elytra mission for the National Reconnaissance Office that will launch aboard the Alpha launch vehicle later in 2024.
The Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology produces the YZ-3 upper stage and also produces the Long March 2D rocket.
Firefly Aerospace offers launch, lunar, and on-orbit services and develops small- to medium-lift launch vehicles, lunar landers, and orbital vehicles.
The DIU project with Firefly follows another DIU space logistics project announced on 2024-03-20.
The donated Space Tango spaceflight hardware will go on display at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum when the "At Home in Space" exhibition opens in 2026.
DIU awarded Firefly Aerospace a study contract that could lead to as many as two flight demonstration missions in cislunar space.
On 2024-03-21 Firefly Aerospace signed an agreement with the U.S. Department of Defense’s Defense Innovation Unit to conduct a trade study on Firefly’s capabilities to rapidly launch Elytra vehicles and support missions beyond Geosynchronous Orbit (xGEO).
Under the DIU contract, after the initial study Firefly Aerospace would deliver three to six orbital vehicles for one or more launches to orbits in cislunar space with the goal of reducing delivery time for each subsequent mission.
Firefly plans to complete the first Elytra Dark demonstration mission within 18 months of receiving approval to proceed.
The Defense Innovation Unit signed an agreement with Firefly Aerospace on 2024-03-21 to study the potential use of Firefly’s Elytra orbital vehicle for missions beyond geosynchronous Earth orbit.
Firefly Aerospace delivered the ESA spacecraft from Lockheed Martin’s production facility in Colorado to Vandenberg Space Force Base.
Project Gemini was the first NASA human spaceflight program to be named with public input, proposed by audience members.
Firefly Aerospace ships its rockets built in Texas to California for launches due to a lack of launch facilities in Texas.
Space debris resulting from anti-satellite tests jeopardizes the functionality of satellites and endangers human spaceflight missions.
The Office of Commercial Space Transportation is seeking $2,600,000 in new funding for orbital human spaceflight oversight to hire staff and bring in contractors to begin developing orbital human spaceflight safety rules and create a joint working group with NASA.
Firefly Aerospace established the DREAM program in 2019 to encourage students to develop an interest in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM).
The Indian government formally approved the human spaceflight program in 2018.
Firefly Aerospace selected three educational payloads to launch aboard its Alpha rocket as early as 2025.