As Firefly Aerospace prepares for its upcoming Alpha rocket launches, work continues apace on its next-generation Medium Launch Vehicle (MLV) rocket with its Miranda and Vira engines, utilizing its Briggs test site in Texas. MLV’s Chief Engineer, Miles Gray, showed NSF around the test site to update the status of the new vehicle and engines while also noting the vehicle is being designed with reusability in mind, involving a recovery that follows a similar path as SpaceX’s Starship Mechazilla catch system.
