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Firefly Aerospace and Adaptive Launch Solutions have signed a multi-year Launch Services Agreement that includes four Alpha launches beginning in 2021.
Orbit Fab signed an agreement with Spaceflight Inc. to launch its first operational fuel depot to orbit in 2021.
Firefly Aerospace is completing a Space Launch Complex 2 conversion at Vandenberg Air Force Base to support the maiden Firefly Alpha launch.
Firefly Aerospace’s Alpha small launch vehicle will launch from a Vandenberg complex that was formerly used by the Delta II.
Orbit Fab signed an agreement with Spaceflight Inc. to launch the company’s first operational fuel depot to orbit.
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 Florida facility at Cape Canaveral will ultimately be capable of producing an estimated 24 Alpha rockets per year.
Firefly Aerospace signed a Launch Services Agreement with Spire Global to launch Lemur spacecraft on multiple Alpha missions.
Firefly Aerospace plans a block upgrade to increase Alpha's Low Earth Orbit payload capacity to 1,300 kg.
Firefly Aerospace completed the successful acceptance test of the first stage of its Alpha launch vehicle on 2020-10-20.
Spaceflight Inc. won a contract to launch a Brazilian satellite on India’s PSLV at the end of 2020 or beginning of 2021.
Spaceflight Industries plans to invest proceeds from the sale of its rideshare business into BlackSky.
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 Aerospace and Spaceflight Inc. signed a Launch Services Agreement establishing Spaceflight as the lead customer aboard an upcoming Firefly Alpha launch.
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.
Spaceflight executed nine rideshare missions in 2019, the most rideshare launches the company performed in one year.
Spaceflight monitored the planned maiden flights of Firefly Aerospace's Alpha and Virgin Orbit's LauncherOne expected later in 2020.
Firefly Aerospace planned static-fire tests of the first stage of its Alpha rocket and a first launch later in 2020 from Vandenberg Air Force Base.
Firefly Aerospace executed a Launch Services Agreement with SATLANTIS on 2020-02-04 in Cedar Park, Texas.