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Spaceflight is actively planning several Sherpa orbital transfer vehicle missions to support efforts in low Earth orbit, geosynchronous equatorial orbit, and other cislunar destinations.
Astrocast has launched 12 satellites with Spaceflight and has plans to launch a total of 100 nanosatellites.
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.
Spaceflight launched the SXRS-5 mission as part of the SpaceX Falcon 9 Transporter-2 launch on 2021-06-30.
Spaceflight used the stability of the RBC Signals ground station network to execute commands to Sherpa-LTE1 for propulsion and maneuvering.
Spaceflight Inc. is executing a cislunar rideshare mission called GEO Pathfinder.
Firefly Aerospace raised $75,000,000 in a Series A round in May and is seeking approximately $300,000,000 in a Series B to support future projects including its medium-class Beta vehicle.
Spaceflight will deploy rideshare payloads to trans-lunar orbit, low-lunar orbit, and geosynchronous equatorial orbit (GEO) on the GEO Pathfinder mission.
Spaceflight will utilize a lunar flyby with its propulsive transfer vehicle Sherpa EScape (Sherpa-ES) to deliver a payload from GeoJump that will contain an Orbit Fab in-space fueling payload.
Orbit Fab launched its first payload, Tanker-001 Tenzing, in June on Spaceflight’s SXRS-5 mission on SpaceX’s Transporter-2.
Spaceflight flew three Sherpa orbital transfer vehicles on two different missions in 2021 and successfully deployed all 50 customer spacecraft.
The previous American spaceflight duration record was 340 days set by Scott Kelly on his 2015–16 ISS mission.
Firefly Aerospace obtained approximately two minutes and twenty-five seconds of flight data from Alpha Flight 1 that will be used to improve the design of future Alpha launch vehicles.
Firefly is building the Blue Ghost lunar lander with a planned mission to the Moon in 2023.
Firefly Aerospace conducted the maiden flight of its Alpha launch vehicle on 2021-09-02 from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
Firefly’s Flight and Test Operations Department, led by Anne Chinnery, Brad Obrocto, and Sean Reilly, built Firefly’s launch facility and conducted the first launch.
Firefly acknowledges support provided by the United States Space Force through Space Launch Delta 30 at Vandenberg Space Force Base and by the FAA.
Firefly Aerospace is building the Blue Ghost lunar lander intended to go to the Moon in 2023.
Firefly Aerospace conducted the maiden flight of its Alpha launch vehicle from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on 2021-09-02.
The Firefly project was first used by the State of California and the California National Guard in 2019.