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Firefly Aerospace executed a Launch Services Agreement with Innovative Space Logistics BV (ISILAUNCH) on 2020-01-21.
The 2020-01-22 incident occurred one day after Firefly Aerospace entered a launch services agreement with ISILAUNCH, a subsidiary of Innovative Solutions in Space.
Firefly Aerospace announced the Dedicated Research and Education Accelerator Mission (DREAM) as a global competition to host academic and educational payloads on the inaugural flight of the Firefly Alpha launch vehicle.
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.
Firefly Aerospace is advertising Alpha launches for $15,000,000.
Spaceflight will purchase the first commercial launch of India’s Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV), a new Indian vehicle scheduled to make its debut later 2019.
On 2019-07-09 Firefly Aerospace signed an Intellectual Property and Engineering Support Agreement with Israel Aerospace Industries for technology based on the Beresheet lunar lander.
Firefly commits a portion of the payload capacity on Alpha’s maiden flight to support and stimulate STEM globally.
Firefly Aerospace plans to begin manufacturing rockets in Texas while constructing a factory in Florida to produce as many as 24 Alpha rockets per year.
Firefly Aerospace planned a first launch of its Alpha launch vehicle in December 2019 under an all-green-light schedule but expected the schedule would probably slip into 2020.
On 2019-03-19 in Cedar Park, Texas, Firefly Aerospace executed a Memorandum of Understanding with Airbus Defence and Space to develop new space launch solutions for Airbus customers.
Firefly Aerospace reached an agreement with Space Florida to help fund development of a launch site at Space Launch Complex 20 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station and a launch vehicle factory just outside the gates of the Kennedy Space Center.
Firefly Aerospace stated the new factory will be able to produce 24 Alpha vehicles per year.
Firefly Aerospace planned a separate large-scale mass production facility for Alpha to support higher production rates.
Firefly Aerospace plans to invest $52,000,000 in the factory and launch site development and to create more than 200 jobs.
Firefly Aerospace plans to invest $52,000,000 in the factory and launch site development and to create more than 200 jobs.
Firefly Aerospace’s mass production manufacturing facility in Exploration Park will produce 24 Alpha vehicles per year.
Firefly Aerospace will invest $52,000,000 in its Florida operations.
Firefly Aerospace executed a Launch and Brokerage Services Agreement with Spaceflight on 2018-12-20.
Firefly Aerospace and York Space Systems entered a memorandum of understanding on 2018-10-10 to offer customers a combined package of satellite and launch services.