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Northrop Grumman is partnering with Firefly Aerospace to build a new version of the Antares rocket without Russian-made engines.
Northrop Grumman Corporation and Firefly Aerospace partnered to provide an American-built first-stage upgrade for the Antares rocket and to develop a new medium-class launch vehicle for commercial, civil, and national security space launch markets.
The Antares 330 first stage will use Firefly Aerospace composites for its structure and tanks.
The new version of Antares, called the Antares 330, will feature a first stage using seven Miranda engines under development by Firefly Aerospace.
Northrop Grumman and Firefly Aerospace will first develop a fully domestic version of the Antares rocket, the Antares 330, for Cygnus space station commercial resupply services.
In 2021 Spaceflight launched three Sherpa OTVs—Sherpa-FX1, Sherpa-FX2, and Sherpa-LTE1—that collectively carried 50 spacecraft to orbit.
Spaceflight plans to launch Sherpa-ES, a bipropellant high delta-V OTV, aboard the lunar slingshot mission GEO Pathfinder in mid-2023.
Following the upcoming Starlink mission, Spaceflight will have launched more than 550 spacecraft across more than 50 missions.
Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) and Firefly Aerospace have partnered to provide an American-built first-stage upgrade for the Antares rocket and to develop a new medium-class launch vehicle for commercial, civil, and national security space launch markets.
General Atomics was responsible for launching the MAIA-hosting satellite and in February 2021 awarded a contract to Firefly Aerospace for a launch on Firefly’s Alpha rocket.
Xona Space Systems' first in-space demonstrator has been delivered to Spaceflight Inc. for final integration after completing testing.
Blue Origin successfully completed its sixth human spaceflight and the 22nd flight of the New Shepard program on 2022-08-04.
The spaceflight designated Axiom Mission 2 (Ax-2) will launch from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida and travel to the International Space Station.
Long March 2D was designed and built by the Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology.
Jared Isaacman announced the Polaris Program in February as a series of missions to develop experience in human spaceflight.
Firefly holds a Venture Class Launch Services (VCLS) demonstration contract awarded in December 2020 valued at $9,800,000 to carry a set of NASA cubesats to orbit as soon as November.
Project 921, which approved development of China’s human spaceflight capabilities, was first envisioned in 1992.
Spaceflight is working with SpaceX on several missions following Transporter 5, including missions that will feature Sherpa OTVs such as the GeoPathfinder mission slated for next year.
SpaceX will no longer work with Spaceflight on future rideshare missions after launching those remaining on Spaceflight’s manifest.
Spaceflight used another variant of its Sherpa OTV to deploy satellites on SpaceX’s Transporter 5 mission in May.