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Firefly Aerospace

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commercialFounded 2013
United States
www.fireflyspace.com
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Spaceflight participants Yulia Peresild and Klim Shipenko were aboard Soyuz MS-18 after flying to the station on Soyuz MS-19, which launched on 2021-10-05.

Mentioned as: Firefly AerospaceNarrative GeneralOct 17, 2021Soyuz returns cosmonauts and film crew to Earth

Yang Liwei launched on Shenzhou-5 in October 2003 to make China the third country to achieve independent human spaceflight.

Mentioned as: Firefly AerospaceNarrative GeneralOct 15, 2021Shenzhou-13 heads for space station after reaching orbit

China approved Project 921 in September 1992 to develop human spaceflight capabilities and construct a low Earth orbit space station.

Mentioned as: Firefly AerospaceOrg RelationshipOct 15, 2021Shenzhou-13 heads for space station after reaching orbit

Virgin Galactic will postpone a SpaceShipTwo suborbital spaceflight that had been scheduled for 2021-10 to begin an extended maintenance period for the spaceplane and its carrier aircraft.

Mentioned as: Firefly AerospaceNarrative PlanOct 14, 2021Virgin Galactic postpones SpaceShipTwo flight, begins maintenance period

Blue Origin successfully completed its second human spaceflight on New Shepard on 2021-10-13.

Mentioned as: Firefly AerospaceNarrative GeneralOct 13, 2021Blue Origin successfully and safely completes second human flight to space and back

Microchip is one of the few semiconductor suppliers capable of completing the rigorous qualification process for military and spaceflight microelectronics products.

Mentioned as: Firefly AerospaceNarrative GeneralOct 12, 2021Microchip’s Low Power FPGAs To Accelerate DARPA Tech Innovations

The two November dedicated missions are part of a multi-launch agreement signed between Rocket Lab and Spaceflight Inc. for BlackSky earlier in 2021.

Mentioned as: Firefly AerospaceOrg RelationshipOct 12, 2021Rocket Lab launch operations underway for two BlackSky missions in November

The two dedicated November missions are part of a multi-launch agreement signed between Rocket Lab and Spaceflight Inc. for BlackSky earlier in 2021.

Mentioned as: spaceflight incTechnical ProductOct 11, 2021Rocket Lab Has Back-To-Back Electron Launches In November For BlackSky Constellation Smallsats

Spaceflight reached an agreement with Intuitive Machines on 2021-09-14 to fly as a secondary payload on the IM-2 lunar lander mission launching on a SpaceX Falcon 9 in the fourth quarter of 2022.

Mentioned as: Firefly AerospaceOrg RelationshipSep 27, 2021Spaceflight offers lunar flyby rideshare mission

Spaceflight plans a lunar flyby mission next year as a pathfinder to support customers going to geostationary orbit and the Moon.

Mentioned as: SpaceflightTechnical ProductSep 27, 2021Spaceflight offers lunar flyby rideshare mission

Spaceflight Inc. reported 100% mission success for its SXRS-5 mission onboard SpaceX’s Transporter-2 in June, which deployed 36 spacecraft.

Mentioned as: Firefly AerospaceOrg RelationshipSep 26, 2021Spaceflight’s Long List Of New Launch Contracts Enrich Future Of Space Infrastructure

Astrocast has launched 12 satellites with Spaceflight Inc. and plans to launch a total of 100 nanosatellites.

Mentioned as: Firefly AerospaceOrg RelationshipSep 26, 2021Spaceflight’s Long List Of New Launch Contracts Enrich Future Of Space Infrastructure

Spaceflight Inc. signed new launch agreements with Astrocast, Canon Electronics, Capella Space, GeoJump, HawkEye 360, Orbit Fab, Loft Orbital, NASA, NearSpace Launch Inc. / Inter-Modal Holding LLC, Portland State Aerospace Society, Space Products and Innovation (SPiN), Spacemanic, University of Toronto Aerospace Team, Xona Space Systems, and several undisclosed U.S. government organizations.

Mentioned as: Spaceflight Inc.Technical ProductSep 26, 2021Spaceflight’s Long List Of New Launch Contracts Enrich Future Of Space Infrastructure

Spaceflight Inc. is preparing Sherpa-ES, a propulsive transfer vehicle designed to execute missions to trans-lunar orbit, low-lunar orbit, and geosynchronous equatorial orbit.

Mentioned as: spaceflight incTechnical ProductSep 26, 2021Spaceflight’s Long List Of New Launch Contracts Enrich Future Of Space Infrastructure

Spaceflight Inc. is planning multiple Sherpa orbital transfer vehicle missions to support customers in low Earth orbit, geosynchronous equatorial orbit, and other cislunar destinations.

Mentioned as: Spaceflight Inc.Technical ProductSep 26, 2021Spaceflight’s Long List Of New Launch Contracts Enrich Future Of Space Infrastructure

The Orbit Fab payload will reach geostationary orbit aboard a Spaceflight Sherpa-ES orbital transfer vehicle using a lunar flyby trajectory that passes around the far side of the Moon.

Mentioned as: SpaceflightTechnical ProductSep 24, 2021Orbit Fab to launch propellant tanker to fuel satellites in geostationary orbit

Xona Space Systems has a SpaceX Falcon 9 rideshare mission in mid-2022, brokered by Spaceflight, to launch a dedicated commercial positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) satellite.

Mentioned as: Firefly AerospaceNarrative GeneralSep 23, 2021Xona Space Systems finds funding for GPS-alternative demo mission

Spaceflight is actively planning several Sherpa orbital transfer vehicle missions to support efforts in low Earth orbit, geosynchronous equatorial orbit, and other cislunar destinations.

Mentioned as: SpaceflightTechnical ProductSep 22, 2021Spaceflight’s new launch contracts growth of Space infra

Astrocast has launched 12 satellites with Spaceflight and has plans to launch a total of 100 nanosatellites.

Mentioned as: Firefly AerospaceOrg RelationshipSep 22, 2021Spaceflight’s new launch contracts growth of Space infra

Spaceflight is preparing Sherpa-ES, a new propulsive transfer vehicle designed to execute missions to trans-lunar orbit, low-lunar orbit, and geosynchronous equatorial orbit.

Mentioned as: SpaceflightTechnical ProductSep 22, 2021Spaceflight’s new launch contracts growth of Space infra
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