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Astra Space, Firefly Aerospace, and Relativity Space won VCLS Demo 2 contracts in 2020 for missions launching in 2023.
Firefly Aerospace paused preparations for its next launch in December 2022 at the request of the federal government while its largest shareholder, Noosphere Venture Partners, divests its stake at the request of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States.
Celestis, Inc. entered into a launch services agreement with United Launch Alliance to host a Celestis Memorial Spaceflight payload aboard the initial flight of ULA’s Vulcan Centaur planned for later 2022.
General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems selected Firefly Aerospace to launch MAIA on its Alpha rocket in 2022.
Spaceflight Inc. commissioned an additional sixth Electron launch for BlackSky to take place in 2022.
The Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel released its annual report on 2022-01-11 calling for NASA to reexamine how it manages human spaceflight programs.
One of the 10 satellites originally planned on Spaceflight's Sherpa, VZLUSAT-2 by the Czech research center VZLU, was flown on Transporter-3 by D-Orbit instead.
Kleos Space is partnering with launch services provider Spaceflight Inc. to deploy the Patrol Mission (KSF2) satellites to a sun-synchronous orbit.
Spaceflight removed its planned Sherpa tug from Transporter-3 after the tug's chemical propulsion system developed a leak during launch processing.
Kleos had planned to launch the same satellites on Transporter-3 through Spaceflight before moving them to Transporter-4.
The Kleos Patrol Mission launch on Transporter-3 was postponed when Spaceflight’s orbital transfer vehicle experienced technical issues.
The Trump administration ordered the transfer of spaceflight safety responsibilities from U.S. Space Command to the Department of Commerce in a 2018 policy directive.
The Yunhai-1 (02) satellite was developed by the Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology.
Spaceflight Inc. designed the Sherpa-LTC to offer rideshare customers a fast on-orbit transportation option.
Spaceflight Inc.’s SXRS-6 mission will deliver 13 payloads on the company’s first multi-destination rideshare mission.
Firefly Aerospace won a NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services award for a lunar lander mission scheduled for 2023.
When Firefly raised a $75,000,000 Series A round in May 2021, Noosphere sold an additional $100,000,000 of its shares in Firefly.
Max Polyakov invested $200,000,000 to resurrect Firefly and continue development of the Alpha small launch vehicle.
Before the government decision to halt launch preparations, Firefly Aerospace had been gearing up for an Alpha launch as soon as late January 2022.
Max Polyakov acquired the assets of the former Firefly Space Systems in 2017 after that company filed for bankruptcy.