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Firefly Aerospace’s medium-lift rocket is being designed to support the requirements of the U.S. Space Force National Security Space Launch Phase 3.
Lane 1 of NSSL Phase 3 will seek bids for less-demanding missions to low Earth orbit and is intended to attract new entrants such as Rocket Lab, Firefly Aerospace, and Relativity Space.
Firefly Aerospace has built development hardware and is conducting testing for the MLV propellant tank ahead of a structure critical design review planned in May.
Northrop Grumman will build the Antares 330 with a first stage powered by seven Firefly-made Miranda engines.
The partnership between Firefly Aerospace and Northrop Grumman was first established in August to build an all-American version of Northrop’s Antares rocket.
The S993 provides high-capacity, non-volatile Flash memory for reliable data storage in both in-orbit spaceflight and downlink communications.
Firefly Aerospace is developing a medium-lift rocket with Northrop Grumman that is projected to launch in 2025.
"Revolution Space" called on Europe to develop its own human spaceflight capabilities, including launching astronauts to low Earth orbit and the moon.
ESA will seek political support, but not funding, for future human spaceflight programs recommended by a high-level advisory group in a report released 2023-03-23 titled "Revolution Space."
The Space Force awarded contracts in August to Millennium, a Boeing company, to produce Victus Nox and to Firefly Aerospace to launch the spacecraft.
Through the Tactically Responsive Space-3 mission, the U.S. Space Force is preparing to launch a Millennium-built satellite on a Firefly Aerospace rocket.
Northrop Grumman announced a partnership with Firefly Aerospace in August 2022 to develop a new first stage for Antares.
The 2023-03-14 CRS-27 mission also carried a Department of Defense payload, STP-H9, that includes eight spaceflight experiments.
The Commercial Space Launch Amendments Act of 2004 established a moratorium on the FAA’s ability to enact safety regulations for spaceflight participants.
Jeremy Hansen will be making his first spaceflight on Artemis 2 and is slated to be the first non-American to travel to the vicinity of the moon when the mission launches as soon as late 2024.
China’s Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology (SAST) launched a CZ-2D at 1050 UTC on 2023-03-30 placing four radar satellites into a 497 x 512 km, 97.4° inclination sun-synchronous orbit with 18:00 LTDN.
Since establishing the Exploration Systems Mission Directorate in September 2021, NASA has assessed and aligned its two human spaceflight organizations while remaining focused on Artemis, International Space Station operations, commercial crew, and commercial cargo.
Lunar Pathfinder, a spacecraft being built by Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. for the Moonlight program, will launch in 2026 as part of a CLPS mission awarded to Firefly Aerospace on 2023-03-14.
Firefly Aerospace’s Alpha rocket failed on its first launch in September 2021 and reached orbit on its second launch a little more than a year later.
Isar Aerospace has a 2023-01-25 agreement with Spaceflight Inc. for one dedicated Spectrum launch and an option for a second launch.