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Firefly Aerospace has been selected to develop an analytical framework for aggregated on-orbit spacecraft hubs in support of DARPA’s 10-Year Lunar Architecture (LunA-10) capability study.
Firefly identified a path to improve on-orbit mission response times from years to days using scalable spacecraft hubs that can host and service spacecraft across cislunar space.
Firefly Aerospace will outline an aggregated hub of on-orbit spacecraft that dock together and offer on-demand services based on its Elytra line of spacecraft for LunA-10.
The 14 companies selected for LunA-10 are Blue Origin, CisLunar Industries, Crescent Space Services LLC, Fibertek, Inc., Firefly Aerospace, GITAI, Helios, Honeybee Robotics, ICON, Nokia of America, Northrop Grumman, Redwire Corporation, Sierra Space, and SpaceX.
On 2023-12-05 Firefly Aerospace was selected to develop an analytical framework for aggregated on-orbit spacecraft hubs in support of DARPA’s 10-Year Lunar Architecture (LunA-10) capability study.
Firefly’s contribution to LunA-10 will include a framework for an aggregated hub of on-orbit spacecraft that dock together and offer on-demand services across cislunar space.
ESA's decision to create its own astronaut corps was intended to reinforce its role in international spaceflight.
The UK is joining other countries on a commercial path to human spaceflight.
The UK joined ESA's human spaceflight program after a call from the UK minister for science and innovation to ESA.
Other ESA member states were strong supporters of the human spaceflight program while the UK was not actively contributing.
Firefly conducted the Miranda engine hot-fire test on 2023-11-28 at the company’s Texas test site.
Firefly closed a third tranche of a Series C round on 2023-11-10, bringing total funds raised since February to $300,000,000 at a pre-money valuation of $1,500,000,000.
Firefly Aerospace is designing, manufacturing, and testing the first stage structures for Antares 330.
India and the United States agreed during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the United States earlier 2023 to launch a two-week joint India-US spaceflight next year.
Firefly Aerospace completed the first hot fire test for its Miranda engine that will power the first stage of Northrop Grumman’s Antares 330 and the Medium Launch Vehicle the two companies are co-developing.
Firefly Aerospace is utilizing new automated manufacturing equipment at its Briggs, Texas site.
Firefly’s Alpha rocket most recently launched on 2023-09-14 on the Victus Nox mission for the U.S. Space Force.
Firefly designed, built, and tested the fully assembled Miranda engine in house in just over 12 months.
Firefly is designing, manufacturing, and testing the first stage structures for Antares 330.
On 2023-11-28, Firefly Aerospace completed the first hot fire test for its Miranda engine that will power the first stage of Northrop Grumman’s Antares 330 and the Medium Launch Vehicle the companies are co-developing.