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.
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Firefly Aerospace, the decade-old spaceflight company based in Cedar Park, Texas, is now working on…
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Firefly successfully launched Alpha on Noise of Summer mission
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As the Cygnus S.S. Laurel Clark spends its first days berthed to the ISS, the…
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On Oct. 1, 2022, Firefly launched the “To The Black” mission which successfully deployed three…
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With the goal of successfully reaching orbit, Firefly successfully launched FLTA002 – its second demonstration…
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Firefly closes in on debut flight with rocket delivery to Vandenberg launch site
by Tyler GrayAcross the world, several startup launch providers such as Relativity Space, Astra, Virgin Orbit, and…
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Firefly has announced that they have received the AS9100 Quality Certification. This will allow Firefly…
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For the better part of 18 months, a Central Texas-based rocket startup known as Firefly…
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NASA’s CLPS program accelerates as two landers head for the Moon
As NASA focuses on returning humans to the Moon with Artemis, commercial providers are gearing…
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SpaceX launched not one but two lunar landers to the Moon on the same mission,…
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On Tuesday, January 14 at 11:09 AM PST (19:09 UTC) SpaceX launched the Transporter-12 rideshare…
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SpaceX is gearing up for another record-breaking year in 2025 after surpassing all previous record-breaking…
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