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Overview

Destination: Low Earth Orbit
Mission: Government/Top Secret

Low Earth Orbit Space Launch Complex 2W Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA

Third flight of the Firefly Alpha small sat launcher, carrying a payload for the US Department of Defense.

Updates

Cosmic_Penguin • Sept. 15, 2023, 6:44 a.m.

Launch success with satellite deployed.


Cosmic_Penguin • Sept. 15, 2023, 2:34 a.m.

Liftoff.


Nosu • Sept. 14, 2023, 7:28 a.m.

Adding probable launch window


Cosmic_Penguin • Feb. 8, 2023, 5:51 a.m.

NET May


Firefly Alpha

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Firefly Alpha (Firefly α) is a two-stage orbital expendable launch vehicle developed by the American aerospace company Firefly Aerospace to cover the commercial small satellite launch market. Alpha is intended to provide launch options for both full vehicle and ride share customers.

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Specifications
  • Stages
    2
  • Length
    29.0 m
  • Diameter
    1.82 m
  • Fairing Diameter
    2.21 m
  • Launch Mass
    54.0 T
  • Thrust
    736.0 kN
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  • Name
    Firefly Alpha
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  • Variant
  • Alias
  • Full Name
    Firefly Alpha
Payload Capacity
  • Launch Cost
    $15000000
  • Low Earth Orbit
    1000.0 kg
  • Geostationary Transfer Orbit
  • Direct Geostationary
  • Sun-Synchronous Capacity
    630.0 kg

Firefly Aerospace

Firefly Aerospace

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CEO: Peter Schumacher Founded: 2014 Successes: 3 Failures: 2 Pending: 4

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Firefly Aerospace is an American private aerospace firm based in Austin, Texas, that develops small and medium-sized launch vehicles for commercial launches to orbit.

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