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The flight window for Virgin Galactic’s first powered spaceflight from Spaceport America will open on 2020-12-11, pending good weather conditions and technical readiness.
Karina Drees will work directly with the Commercial Spaceflight Federation’s 85+ members to develop and implement the organization’s vision and strategy.
Firefly Aerospace’s Alpha small launch vehicle will launch from a Vandenberg complex that was formerly used by the Delta II.
Orbit Fab reached an agreement on 2020-11-17 with Spaceflight Inc. to send its first microsatellite into orbit in 2021.
Tanker-001 Tenzing is scheduled to launch on Spaceflight’s Sherpa-FX orbital transfer vehicle and will be housed in an Astro Digital satellite based on the Corvus-XL bus.
Orbit Fab signed an agreement with Spaceflight Inc. to launch the company’s first operational fuel depot to orbit.
Tanker 001 Tenzing is one of several payloads planned to launch on a Spaceflight Sherpa orbital transfer vehicle.
Spaceflight planned as many as five Sherpa missions in 2021, including the first flights of both the LTE and LTC versions.
Spaceflight Inc. announced a new version of its Sherpa tug on 2020-11-12 equipped with electric propulsion that can send smallsats to high orbits or cislunar space.
The next-generation Sherpa vehicles are successors to the Sherpa vehicles used on Spaceflight’s SSO-A dedicated rideshare launch in December 2018.
Spaceflight arranged the PSLV launch that placed Kleos Space's four cubesats into orbit on 2020-11-07.
Firefly Aerospace will install the second automated assembly line at its Florida Space Coast factory and launch site at Cape Canaveral beginning in 2022.
Firefly Aerospace will install the first of two planned AFP systems in May 2021 at its manufacturing and test facility in Briggs, Texas.
Firefly Aerospace’s new automated rocket factories are expected to reduce composite materials waste by 30–50% and to increase repeatability while reducing touch labor and build times.
Firefly Aerospace’s Florida facility at Cape Canaveral will ultimately be capable of producing an estimated 24 Alpha rockets per year.
Firefly Aerospace will leverage AFP technology that is used to manufacture composite airframes for the Boeing 787, Airbus A350, and F-35.
Firefly expects its automated AFP factories to reduce composite materials waste by 30 to 50 percent.
Firefly’s Florida Space Coast factory will ultimately be capable of producing an estimated 24 Alpha rockets per year.
Firefly will leverage AFP technology that is used to manufacture composite airframes for the Boeing 787, Airbus A350, and the F-35.
Firefly will install the first of two planned AFP Mongoose Hybrid systems in May 2021 at its manufacturing and test facility in Briggs, Texas.