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Firefly Aerospace signed an agreement with Israel Aerospace Industries in July 2019 to use Beresheet lander technology for its Genesis lunar lander.
Firefly Aerospace received AS9100 quality certification as it transitions from the developmental phase to production phase ahead of the inaugural flight of its Alpha launch vehicle in 2020.
Firefly plans to leverage its AS9100-certified quality assurance program in support of its Alpha launch vehicle, Beta launch vehicle, Genesis lunar lander, and Orbital Transfer Vehicle.
Firefly's certified quality processes assure commercial and government customers that their critical space missions will be successfully executed.
Firefly requires all suppliers to be AS9100 certified as part of its quality assurance program.
Firefly's AS9100 certification marks a key milestone in its maturation as it moves into the production phase of the Alpha launch vehicle.
Firefly has passed all quality audit requirements to obtain the AS9100 certification, which ensures quality management practices in the aerospace industry.
Firefly is advancing towards full production capabilities following qualification tests this spring.
The 2020-04-29 letter was signed by the Commercial Spaceflight Federation, the SmallSat Alliance, the App Association, Dcode, and Financial Executives International.
Bridenstine confirmed to Trump that he would consider using Virgin Galactic's suborbital spaceflight system.
Firefly Aerospace signed a contract with Spaceflight to be the primary customer for a rideshare mission on Firefly’s Alpha small launch vehicle in 2021.
Final acceptance of Firefly Alpha’s first and second stages will take place over the next several months at Firefly’s test facilities in Briggs, Texas, with hardware deployments to Vandenberg planned for 2020-06-05.
Spaceflight completed the first-ever rideshare mission to Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO) in 2019 and launched the first privately funded lunar lander on that mission.
Firefly will ship Alpha vehicles to Vandenberg where work is continuing to modify Space Launch Complex 2 West, a former Delta II pad.
Spaceflight will sign, manage, integrate, and deploy multiple payloads on the Firefly Alpha flight to maximize the vehicle’s 630 kg launch capacity to Sun Synchronous Orbit.
Spaceflight has launched 271 satellites via 29 rideshare missions across a global portfolio of vehicles.
Firefly was one of an estimated eight to ten bidders for the CLPS task order that NASA awarded to Masten Space Systems on 2020-04-08.
Spaceflight executed nine rideshare missions in 2019, the most rideshare launches the company performed in one year.
Firefly has split operations into two shifts, increased telework, purchased high-end laptops, and upgraded its network to continue development amid the coronavirus pandemic, operating at least at 90% capacity.
The launch services agreement dated 2020-04-22 assigns Spaceflight to provide the majority of the payloads for the Alpha mission projected to take place in the middle of 2021.