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Firefly intends to work with Northrop Grumman on how to meet national security space requirements for NSSL Phase 3.
The upgraded Antares 330 will use seven Firefly Miranda engines.
Spaceflight Inc.’s Sherpa-LTC2 tug launched 2022-09-04 as a rideshare payload on a Falcon 9 that also carried 51 Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
The U.S. Space Force awarded Firefly a $17,600,000 contract for the 2023 Tactically Responsive Space TacRS-3 mission.
Firefly is completing the Acceptance Testing Protocol for its Alpha 3 vehicle in preparation for the NASA VCLS Demo 2-FB ELaNa 43 launch.
Firefly Aerospace is the first company to launch and reach orbit from U.S. soil in only its second attempt.
Firefly is scheduled for six Alpha launches to carry customer payloads in 2023 and 12 Alpha launches in 2024.
Firefly is the first U.S. commercial space company with a rocket ready to take customers to space in the 1,300 kg payload lift class.
Firefly Aerospace became the first company to launch and reach orbit from US soil in only its second attempt.
Firefly Aerospace is completing the Acceptance Testing Protocol for its Alpha 3 vehicle in preparation for the NASA VCLS Demo 2-FB ELaNa 43 launch.
Firefly Aerospace is scheduled for 12 Alpha launches to carry customer payloads in 2024.
Firefly Aerospace’s Alpha launch vehicle is designed to provide affordable, rapid access to space.
Firefly Aerospace is scheduled for six Alpha launches to carry customer payloads in 2023.
Firefly Aerospace is the first and only US commercial space company with a rocket ready to take customers to space in the 1,300 kg payload lift class.
Firefly Aerospace’s Alpha Flight 2 mission successfully launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base on 2022-10-01.
Firefly projected up to six launches in 2023 and was setting up production at its Texas factory to support that launch rate.
Peter Schumacher stated in July 2023 that Firefly would perform one more Alpha launch in 2023 if the second launch was successful, carrying NASA-sponsored cubesats through a Venture Class Launch Services contract won in December 2020.
Firefly Aerospace labeled the 2022-10-01 Alpha flight as a 100% mission success.
Firefly Space Transport Services and Millennium Space Systems won contracts for the TacRS-3 mission, a space domain awareness small satellite projected to launch in 2023.
Firefly’s Alpha performed its first successful orbital launch overnight on 2022-10-01 from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, sending three small satellites to low Earth orbit.