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Firefly Aerospace is the first company to launch and reach orbit from U.S. soil in only its second attempt.
Firefly Aerospace’s Alpha launch vehicle is designed to provide affordable, rapid access to space.
Firefly Aerospace is scheduled for six Alpha launches to carry customer payloads in 2023.
Firefly Aerospace became the first company to launch and reach orbit from US soil in only its second attempt.
Firefly Aerospace is scheduled for 12 Alpha launches to carry customer payloads in 2024.
Firefly Aerospace’s Alpha Flight 2 mission successfully launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base on 2022-10-01.
Firefly Aerospace’s Alpha launch vehicle is designed to provide affordable, rapid access to space.
Peter Schumacher stated in July 2023 that Firefly would perform one more Alpha launch in 2023 if the second launch was successful, carrying NASA-sponsored cubesats through a Venture Class Launch Services contract won in December 2020.
Firefly Aerospace’s Alpha launch vehicle reached orbit on its second launch on 2023-10-01.
Firefly Aerospace labeled the 2022-10-01 Alpha flight as a 100% mission success.
Firefly Space Transport Services and Millennium Space Systems won contracts for the TacRS-3 mission, a space domain awareness small satellite projected to launch in 2023.
Spaceflight completed inaugural launches of its Sherpa-AC and Sherpa-LTC vehicles in 2022.
Spaceflight completed inaugural launches of its Sherpa-AC and Sherpa-LTC orbital transfer vehicles in 2022.
Firefly Aerospace has partnered with Northrop Grumman Corporation to develop an American-built first-stage upgrade for the Antares rocket and a new medium-lift launch vehicle to serve commercial, civil, and national security space launch markets.
Firefly Aerospace announced an agreement with Northrop Grumman to partner on the Antares 330, which will use a new first stage provided by Firefly to replace the existing Antares first stage built in Ukraine and using Russian engines.
Firefly Aerospace partnered with Northrop Grumman Corporation to develop an American-built first-stage upgrade for the Antares rocket and a new medium-lift launch vehicle.
Spaceflight plans to launch Sherpa-ES, a bipropellant high delta-V OTV, aboard the lunar slingshot mission GEO Pathfinder in mid-2023.
Spaceflight successfully delivered all five customer payloads on Transporter 5, including two hosted payloads deployed from a Sherpa orbital transfer vehicle, to their desired orbital destinations.
Spaceflight successfully launched three Sherpa OTVs last year, deploying more than 50 customer spacecraft.
Firefly Aerospace performed the first launch of its Alpha launch vehicle in September 2021.