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Curt Blake, president and CEO of Spaceflight, supports expanding Spaceflight’s relationship with Astrocast and values having a portfolio of launch options and the expertise to accommodate changes.
The May 2021 $75,000,000 Series A round valued Firefly Aerospace at more than $1,000,000,000.
Spaceflight managed the successful launch of 10 Astrocast spacecraft, including demonstration models on the SSO-A mission in 2018 and PSLV-C45 in 2019.
Spaceflight executed a launch with Astra and plans to debut two additional variations of its Sherpa orbital transfer vehicle family with the GEO Pathfinder quarter lunar slingshot mission.
In February 2020, Astrocast and Spaceflight signed a multi-launch agreement for the launch of 10 additional IoT smallsats representing Astrocast’s sixth launch booked with Spaceflight.
Spaceflight is set to launch a majority of the satellites that will complete the Astrocast IoT Nanosatellite Network.
SpaceX removed a Spaceflight Sherpa tug from the Falcon 9 Transporter-3 rideshare mission in December because the propulsion system provided by Benchmark Space Systems developed a leak.
Spaceflight is continuing to reach out to SpaceX to discuss SpaceX’s position and has not received a response.
Spaceflight supported the launch of 81 spacecraft from nine countries on 11 launches in 2021.
Spaceflight worked with the vendor to address the Sherpa-LTC1 root cause and received SpaceX approval to fly the system on a mission scheduled for later 2022.
Astra delivered its first customer payloads into Earth orbit on 2022-03-15 during the Spaceflight Astra-1 mission.
The 2022-03-15 mission was the first in a multilaunch agreement Astra announced with launch services provider Spaceflight on 2022-03-14.
Spaceflight had planned to launch OreSat0 on a Sherpa tug manifested on the SpaceX Transporter-3 rideshare mission in January, but a propellant leak on the Sherpa forced removal of the vehicle and reassignment to other rides.
The Spaceflight Astra-1 mission delivered Astra's first customer payloads into Earth orbit on 2022-03-15.
Spaceflight’s mission named Astra-1 was planned to carry three Spaceflight customers, including Portland State Aerospace Society and NearSpace Launch, to a 525 km circular sun-synchronous orbit.
NearSpace Launch will launch several additional EyeStar-S4 units 2022 in partnership with Spaceflight.
The LV0009 launch will be the first in a new multi-launch agreement between Astra and the launch services company Spaceflight announced 2022-03-14.
Spaceflight expanded its launch vehicle partner portfolio by adding Astra to offer customers additional launch opportunities.
The first launch under the Astra–Spaceflight contract was planned for 2022-03-14 with a launch window opening at 9:22 a.m. PDT / 16:22 UTC from the Astra Spaceport in Kodiak, Alaska.
The Portland State Aerospace Society previously arranged to launch the student-built OreSat0 cubesat through Spaceflight.