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The inaugural flight of the Firefly Alpha launch vehicle will carry 26 DREAM payloads representing seven different countries.
Firefly Aerospace's CEO Dr. Tom Markusic expressed honor in receiving outstanding submissions that promote STEM globally.
Loft Orbital’s first satellite, YAM-2, is scheduled to launch by mid-2020 on an Indian Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle arranged through Spaceflight.
The Long March 6 uses kerosene and liquid oxygen propellant for its first two stages and was designed by the Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology.
Finalists for Breakthrough of the Year included SpaceX’s Starlink, NASA’s Green Propellant Infusion Mission, JAXA’s Hayabusa-2, China’s Chang’e 4 lunar landing, Spaceflight’s SSO-A SmallSat Express rideshare mission, Spektr-RG, and Northrop Grumman’s MEV-1 satellite servicing mission.
Soyuz-2 will continue to be used for human spaceflight and for launching smaller satellites.
Chris Cassidy will be making his third spaceflight and his second long-duration mission.
The partnership includes work to support development of Firefly Aerospace’s Alpha launch vehicle, which is slated to make its first flight in early 2020.
The SORATO rover will be displayed in the National Air and Space Museum’s "Future of Spaceflight" exhibition, which is scheduled to open in 2024 as part of the museum’s seven-year renovation.
Noosphere Ventures invested in Firefly Aerospace in 2017 to obtain launch capability sized to deploy constellations of remote sensing satellites into dedicated orbits for rapid revisit.
Noosphere Venture Partners provided a lifeline to Firefly Aerospace in 2017 when the small launch vehicle developer was running out of money.
Firefly’s Orbital Transfer Vehicle transfers small payloads between orbits and provides mission flexibility by deploying payloads into unique orbits and reaching altitudes and inclinations out of reach for many small launch vehicles.
Firefly Aerospace will evolve Alpha over the course of 2020 and possibly into early 2021 while preparing to introduce Beta in 2021.
Firefly Aerospace's debut Alpha rocket, set to launch in the first quarter of 2020, will feature 3D-printed components from Aerojet Rocketdyne on its first-stage Reaver engines.
Aerojet Rocketdyne and Firefly will provide dedicated small and medium launch capabilities to low Earth orbit, geosynchronous orbit, and the Moon.
Firefly Aerospace is advertising Alpha launches for $15,000,000.
Firefly Aerospace's long-term goal is to produce Gamma, a winged reusable spaceplane that would launch a rocket into space, with Gamma not expected to be ready until around 2024 or 2025.
George Nield proposed a 'teacher in space' program that would provide one teacher per year from each state a suborbital spaceflight at an estimated cost of $12,500,000 per year assuming a ticket price of $250,000 each.
Virgin Galactic signed a contract on 2019-10-02 with the Italian Air Force to fly a set of research payloads and three people on a future SpaceShipTwo suborbital spaceflight.
Relativity announced customer agreements to support Telesat’s LEO constellation, to launch mu Space’s first LEO satellite, and to launch Spaceflight Industries’ dedicated smallsat rideshares.