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NASA awarded original VCLS contracts in October 2015 with a combined value of $17,100,000 to Firefly Space, Rocket Lab, and Virgin Galactic.
Firefly Space lost its original VCLS contract and filed for bankruptcy in 2016 and later emerged as Firefly Aerospace.
The new contract is similar to an agreement announced in February 2019 for a 2021 Soyuz flight to the station that also featured two spaceflight participants and one professional cosmonaut on board.
The contract announced 2020-06-25 describes a short-duration Soyuz mission lasting 14 days to the International Space Station with two spaceflight participants and one professional cosmonaut on board.
Spaceflight Inc. has launched more than 270 satellites across nearly 30 rideshare missions.
Spaceflight Inc. signed an agreement with SpaceX for rideshare capacity on multiple launches to sun‑synchronous orbit slated for 2021.
Spaceflight Inc. is launching two satellites for BlackSky as a rideshare on a SpaceX Starlink mission later 2020-06.
Mitsui loaned Spaceflight Industries $26,000,000 in October.
Spaceflight Industries plans to invest proceeds from the sale of its rideshare business into BlackSky.
Spaceflight Industries completed the sale of its satellite rideshare business, Spaceflight Inc., to Mitsui & Co. and Yamasa Co. on 2020-06-12.
Crew Dragon and CST-100 Starliner were designed to offer lower costs compared to the space shuttle for human spaceflight and to attract other customers.
BlackSky has four satellites in orbit from launches in 2018 and 2019 that were built in-house by Spaceflight Industries.
LeoStella, a joint venture of Spaceflight Industries and Thales Alenia Space, is building 20 satellites under contract with BlackSky.
The Space Force currently only supports NASA human spaceflight operations.
SpaceX’s Demo-2 commercial crew mission launched on 2020-05-30 and restored crewed orbital spaceflight capability to the United States.
Intelsat is asking its bankruptcy court for authorization to modify a $50,000,000 loan to Spaceflight Industries’ Earth-observation business BlackSky.
Once Mitsui completes its purchase of Spaceflight Industries’ launch business, Spaceflight will use the sale proceeds to repay the $26,000,000 loan and use any additional proceeds to pay down an undisclosed amount of overdue payments to LeoStella.
Mitsui & Co. loaned Spaceflight Industries $26,000,000 on 2020-10-31.
LeoStella is the joint venture between Spaceflight Industries and Thales Alenia Space tasked with building BlackSky’s constellation.
In February Mitsui announced it was buying Spaceflight Industries’ launch rideshare business with Yamasa Co., Ltd., which will own the business in a 50/50 joint venture with Mitsui.