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Firefly intends to greatly expand its business development and government relations team in Washington, D.C.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The satellite relay system will provide continuous communications for human spaceflight.
Firefly Aerospace’s leadership projects growing the company from an estimated $1,000,000,000 valuation during early Alpha and SUV operations to approximately $10,000,000,000 within about five years.
Firefly Aerospace plans the first launch of its larger medium-class vehicle by early 2024.
Firefly Aerospace is seeking to raise $350,000,000 to scale up production and develop larger launch vehicles.
Firefly plans to allocate $225,000,000 of the fundraising round to growth initiatives, in particular development of a medium-class vehicle capable of placing 10,000 kg into orbit.
Max Polyakov and Noosphere Venture Partners provided $200,000,000 of funding for Firefly’s development phase.
Firefly Aerospace scheduled its Alpha launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California for a date described as occurring a few short weeks after 2021-01-26.
Firefly aims to grow from roughly a $1,000,000,000 company to about a $10,000,000,000 company within five years as it brings Alpha and the Space Utility Vehicle into service.
Firefly plans to allocate $125,000,000 of the fundraising round toward production enhancements, including facilities and tooling to ramp up launch vehicle production.
Firefly Space Systems filed for bankruptcy in 2016 and was bought out of bankruptcy by entrepreneur Max Polyakov and his investment fund Noosphere Ventures.
Firefly Aerospace is seeking to raise $350,000,000 to scale up production and develop a medium-class launch vehicle called Beta.
Spaceflight’s SSO-A mission delivered 64 spacecraft to orbit from a free-flyer vehicle.
Spaceflight executed the first dedicated rideshare mission SSO-A, which launched the largest number of satellites from a U.S.-based rocket.
Spaceflight managed the end-to-end launch experience for 10 cubesats, four microsats, and two hosted payloads on the Transporter-1 mission.
Spaceflight launched more than 30 missions and over 300 satellites in its first 10 years of operation.