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Firefly Aerospace

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commercialFounded 2013
United States
www.fireflyspace.com
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Spaceflight was awarded a multi-year contract to provide launch services for INPE through a government procurement process in December 2018.

Mentioned as: Firefly AerospaceNarrative GeneralFeb 17, 2021Spaceflight Details Their Upcoming Amazonia-1 Launch From Satish Dawn Space Center

Spaceflight launched and deployed spacecraft on its next-generation Orbital Transfer Vehicle Sherpa-FX1 aboard the SpaceX Transporter-1 mission.

Mentioned as: Firefly AerospaceNarrative GeneralFeb 17, 2021Spaceflight Details Their Upcoming Amazonia-1 Launch From Satish Dawn Space Center

Spaceflight purchased an entire NewSpace India Limited Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle to accommodate the nearly 700-kilogram Amazonia-1 satellite.

Mentioned as: Firefly AerospaceNarrative GeneralFeb 17, 2021Spaceflight Details Their Upcoming Amazonia-1 Launch From Satish Dawn Space Center

Firefly Aerospace entered a Launch Services Agreement with Exolaunch GmbH to integrate and launch multi-satellite clusters aboard Firefly’s Alpha launch vehicle beginning in 2022.

Mentioned as: Firefly AerospaceNarrative GeneralFeb 12, 2021Firefly Aerospace and Exolaunch Announce Launch Services Agreement

Firefly Aerospace completed acceptance testing of its Flight 1 Alpha vehicle and delivered that vehicle to Vandenberg Air Force Base Space Launch Complex 2 (SLC-2) for integration.

Mentioned as: Firefly AerospaceOrg RelationshipFeb 12, 2021Firefly Aerospace and Exolaunch Announce Launch Services Agreement

Firefly Aerospace has a Launch Services Agreement with Exolaunch GmbH to integrate and launch multi-satellite clusters aboard Firefly’s Alpha launch vehicle starting in 2022.

Mentioned as: Firefly AerospaceNarrative GeneralFeb 10, 2021Launch Services Agreement Signed Between Firefly Aerospace + Exolaunch

Flight 1 Alpha has been delivered to Firefly Aerospace’s Vandenberg Air Force Base Space Launch Complex 2 (SLC-2) launch site for integration.

Mentioned as: Firefly AerospaceOrg RelationshipFeb 10, 2021Launch Services Agreement Signed Between Firefly Aerospace + Exolaunch

Firefly Aerospace uses Austin-based AS9100-certified engineering, test, and production facilities to build and operate spacecraft.

Mentioned as: Firefly AerospaceTechnical ProductFeb 4, 2021NASA Awards Firefly Aerospace $93.3M to Deliver Suite of Payloads to the Moon in 2023

Firefly is developing a family of launch and in-space vehicles and services that provide missions from low Earth orbit to the surface of the Moon.

Mentioned as: FireflyOrg RelationshipFeb 4, 2021NASA Designates $93.3M To Firefly To Deliver Demo Lunar Payloads

Firefly’s Blue Ghost lunar lander will deliver the ten NASA-sponsored payloads to the lunar surface in 2023 in fulfillment of Commercial Lunar Payload Services task order 19D managed by NASA’s Science Mission Directorate.

Mentioned as: Firefly AerospaceNarrative GeneralFeb 4, 2021NASA Designates $93.3M To Firefly To Deliver Demo Lunar Payloads

Israel Aerospace Industries will support Firefly’s Blue Ghost project to leverage lessons learned from the Beresheet mission, which crashed attempting a lunar landing in April 2019.

Mentioned as: FireflyOrg RelationshipFeb 4, 2021Firefly wins NASA CLPS lunar lander contract

Firefly announced a July 2019 partnership with Israel Aerospace Industries to license the Genesis lander that IAI developed for SpaceIL’s Beresheet mission.

Mentioned as: Firefly AerospaceOrg RelationshipFeb 4, 2021Firefly wins NASA CLPS lunar lander contract

NASA selected Firefly Aerospace to deliver a set of 10 research payloads to the moon in 2023 under Commercial Lunar Payload Services Task Order 19D.

Mentioned as: Firefly AerospaceOrg RelationshipFeb 4, 2021Firefly wins NASA CLPS lunar lander contract

The first European Service Module is undergoing final integration with the Lockheed Martin–built Orion spacecraft for Artemis 1, an uncrewed test flight slated for later 2021 to certify the spacecraft and the Space Launch System rocket for human spaceflight.

Mentioned as: Firefly AerospaceNarrative GeneralFeb 4, 2021Airbus awarded €650 million contract to build three more Orion service modules

Firefly Aerospace received a $93,300,000 NASA award to deliver a suite of ten NASA-sponsored science and technology demonstration payloads to Mare Crisium in the Moon’s Crisium basin.

Mentioned as: Firefly AerospaceOrg RelationshipFeb 4, 2021NASA Designates $93.3M To Firefly To Deliver Demo Lunar Payloads

Firefly Aerospace intends to greatly expand its business development and government relations team in Washington, D.C.

Mentioned as: Firefly AerospaceTechnical ProductFeb 4, 2021Firefly Aerospace’s New Board of Directors First Step in Internal Restructuring

The payloads for Firefly’s CLPS 19D mission include an experiment to test the ability to use GPS signals at lunar distances.

Mentioned as: Firefly AerospaceNarrative GeneralFeb 4, 2021Firefly wins NASA CLPS lunar lander contract

NASA awarded Firefly Aerospace $93,300,000 to deliver a suite of ten NASA-sponsored science and technology demonstration payloads to Mare Crisium in the Moon’s Crisium basin.

Mentioned as: Firefly AerospaceOrg RelationshipFeb 4, 2021NASA Awards Firefly Aerospace $93.3M to Deliver Suite of Payloads to the Moon in 2023

Firefly intends to greatly expand its business development and government relations team in Washington, D.C.

Mentioned as: FireflyTechnical ProductFeb 4, 2021Firefly Aerospace Announces New Board of Directors and Corporate Expansion Plans

Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lunar lander will deliver the ten NASA-sponsored payloads to the lunar surface in 2023 under Commercial Lunar Payload Services task order 19D managed by NASA’s Science Mission Directorate.

Mentioned as: Firefly AerospaceOrg RelationshipFeb 4, 2021NASA Awards Firefly Aerospace $93.3M to Deliver Suite of Payloads to the Moon in 2023
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