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New rocket, Firefly's Alpha, may be ready to launch by April By (0) An illustration shows the Blue Ghost lunar lander on the surface of the moon, which is a mission planned in 2023. Image courtesy Firefly Aerospace ORLANDO, Fla., Feb. 26 (UPI) -- Texas-based Firefly Aerospace plans to launch its new Alpha rocket from California in April and send a lunar lander to the moon by 2023. The 95-foot-high launch vehicle is designed to lift satellite payloads that weigh just over a ton into low-Earth orbit, or slightly lighter loads to a higher orbit. Advertisement Firefly has existed for only four ...

Firefly will light up the moon with $93M lunar lander contract from NASA NASA has awarded Firefly Aerospace a $93.3 million contract to take a lunar lander module loaded with experiments to the surface of the moon. While the company will not be performing the launch itself, it will be providing the spacecraft and “Blue Ghost” lander for the 2023 mission. The space agency made the award as part of its ongoing Commercial Lunar Payload Services, under which several other non-prime space companies have been selected for similar work: Blue Origin, Astrobotic, Masten and so on. This particular ...

NASA boosts SmallSats via Launch Services Program NASA’s Launch Services Program (LSP) has awarded three contracts to launch small satellites (SmallSats) to space, including CubeSats, microsats or nanosatellites. The three US companies selected to provide the commercial launches are Astra Space, Relativity Space and Firefly Black LLC. And the value of their fixed-price contracts, $3.9m, $3.0m and $9.8m, respectively Miniature satellites help provide a low-cost platform for NASA missions, and the agency highlighted that SmallSats, including CubeSats, are playing an increasing role in explora...

Rocket company Astra returned to Kodiak last week to launch their newest rocket from Pacific Spaceport Complex — Alaska. Although initial efforts were scuttled because of inclement weather, the company will try another launch today.  On Friday, the Alameda-based rocket startup tweeted that the planned launch of their newest version, Rocket 3.2, had been pushed back because of high winds and triggered lightning.  “We are standing down today due to extreme upper-level wind shear and triggered lightning. We have daily launch opportunities through Dec. 18,” Astra said on Frid...

WASHINGTON (Firefly Black PR) — Firefly Black, LLC is pleased to announce its selection by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for the launch of Mission Two of the Venture Class Launch Service Demonstration 2 (VCLS Demo 2) contract. Mission Two involves launch of two CubeSat constellations to a 550 km Sun-Synchronous Orbit, separated by a minimum of 10 degrees in plane change. “Firefly Black is pleased to have been selected by NASA for this operationally challenging mission. We applaud NASA’s commitment to the nation’s emerging small launch industrial base and loo...