Firefly Aerospace is an American private aerospace firm based in Austin, Texas, that develops launch vehicles for commercial launches to orbit.
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18 Facts About Firefly Aerospace
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Firefly Aerospace completed its $75 million Series A investment round in May 2021, which was led by DADA Holdings.
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Firefly Aerospace is a proponent of NewSpace: a movement in the aerospace industry whose objective is to increase access to space.
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Firefly Aerospace Beta is a launch vehicle concept originally planned to consist of three Alpha cores strapped together.
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In October 2019, Firefly Aerospace announced a partnership with Aerojet Rocketdyne to develop a single core rocket potentially powered by Rocketdyne's AR1 engine.
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Firefly Aerospace is a subcontractor for the Northrop Grumman Antares series 300, contracted to provide the first stage booster for the Antares rocket.
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Firefly Aerospace Gamma is a concept of a winged rocket to launch small payloads into orbit.
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Blue Ghost is a lunar lander designed internally at Firefly Aerospace to meet NASA's updated requirements for a CLPS lunar lander.
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Firefly Aerospace is responsible for end-to-end delivery services, including payload integration, launch from Earth, landing on the Moon, and mission operations.
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Mare Crisium, where Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost will land, is a more than 500-km-wide basin where instruments will gather data to provide insight into the Moon's regolith – loose, fragmented rock and soil – properties, geophysical characteristics, and the interaction of solar wind and Earth's magnetic field.
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Firefly Aerospace is developing spacecraft to provide end-to-end space transportation services.
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The Firefly Aerospace Space Utility Vehicle is a reusable electric spacecraft that moves payloads and satellites from one orbit to another within LEO, GEO, and Lunar space.
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In November 2014, Firefly Aerospace moved its headquarters from Hawthorne, California to Austin-suburb Cedar Park, Texas.
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In 2014, Firefly Aerospace purchased fiber-winding equipment for manufacturing composite cryotanks that would be built using an out-of-autoclave process.
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Firefly Aerospace's objective was to be cash-flow positive by 2018, based on anticipated small-satellite business.
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In March 2017, it was announced that "virtually all" of the assets of Firefly Aerospace would be sold at auction, organized by EOS Launcher, Inc, who had previously bought a US$1 million promissory note issued by Firefly Aerospace to Space Florida and induced a foreclosure.
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Development of engines and structures resumed in 2017 and Firefly Aerospace performed multiple hot-fire tests of its Lightning-1 second stage engine on its existing horizontal test stand.
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