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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.
Relativity Space’s Terran 1, Firefly’s Alpha, and ABL’s RS1 advertise capabilities to deliver 1,000 kg or more to low Earth orbit.
AE Industrial Partners has reached a definitive agreement to acquire a significant stake in Firefly Aerospace from Noosphere Venture Partners LP.
Firefly Aerospace completed the critical design review phase for its Blue Ghost Lunar Lander program and is targeting a launch in late 2023.
Firefly Aerospace raised Series A financing in May 2021 at a $1,100,000,000 valuation.
Firefly Aerospace performed the first launch of Alpha, its flagship launch vehicle, in September 2022.
On 2022-02-16, Max Polyakov posted on Facebook that he was selling his 58% stake in Firefly Aerospace to co-founder Tom Markusic for one U.S. dollar.
Firefly Aerospace completed acceptance testing for the upper stage of the second Alpha rocket on 2022-02-17 after previously completing testing of the first stage.
Spaceflight plans to launch Sherpa-ES on its GEO Pathfinder rideshare mission no earlier than the fourth quarter of 2022.
LeoStella, a joint venture of Thales Alenia Space and Spaceflight Inc., builds satellites in Tukwila, Washington.
Spaceflight is developing Sherpa-LTC with a high-thrust chemical propulsion subsystem for quick on-orbit maneuvers and Sherpa-ES bi-propellant OTV aimed at placing small satellites anywhere in cislunar space including trans- and low-Lunar orbits and GEO.
Spaceflight signed multiple new customers for rideshare and launch services in 2021, including GeoJump, Portland State Aerospace Society, SPiN, Spacemanic, University of Toronto Aerospace Team, and Xona Space Systems.
Spaceflight achieved the first launch of its Sherpa-FX1 orbital transfer vehicle in January 2021 and launched Sherpa-LTE1 and Sherpa-FX2 on SpaceX Transporter-2 in June 2021.
OQ Technology plans to deploy up to six more satellites in 2022 through an agreement with rideshare broker Spaceflight for a constellation of more than 60 spacecraft in total.
CALT has been developing a new-generation launch vehicle for human spaceflight that builds on breakthroughs made for the Long March 5.
Aerospacelab worked with Spaceflight Inc. to send its first satellite, a 12-unit cubesat technology demonstration called Arthur, into orbit on 2022-06-30 aboard the SpaceX Falcon 9 Transporter-2 mission.
NASA anticipates that current and planned science missions, as well as human spaceflight operations, will see an increase in conjunctions if Starlink Gen 2 is deployed.
Jim Bridenstine reestablished an American human spaceflight program after the retirement of the Space Shuttles in 2011.
Astrophysicist and spaceflight analyst Jonathan McDowell’s statistics show SpaceX has launched 2,091 satellites for its low Earth orbit Starlink constellation, including two prototype spacecraft.
China’s human spaceflight agency CMSA issued a call for proposals in January 2021 soliciting low-cost cargo transportation solutions for the Chinese space station.