Tag: Launch Vehicle Platforms

Firefly Aerospace, an end-to-end space transportation company, announced it is adding an Alpha launch capability at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) on Wallops Island, Virginia. In support of Firefly’s responsive space missions, Pad-0A will be configured to launch Alpha as early as 2025 in addition to Antares 330 and the Medium Launch Vehicle (MLV) Firefly…

Firefly Aerospace, an end-to-end space transportation company, announced its Alpha Flight 5 (FLTA005) mission, called Noise of Summer, is scheduled to launch no earlier than June 26. The 30-minute launch window will open at 9 p.m. PST. “The Firefly team has rapidly matured our Alpha rocket and our responsive launch operations to deliver the dependable…

SES announced that the ASTRA 1P satellite was successfully launched by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, United States on June 20 at 5:35 pm local time. The Ku-band satellite will augment and strengthen SES’s prime TV neighborhood at 19.2 degrees East while delivering content for public and…

Rocket Lab USA, a global company in launch services and space systems, announced it has signed the largest Electron launch agreement in the Company’s history; a ten-launch deal with Japanese Earth observation company Synspective. The agreement was announced in Tokyo at an event attended by Rocket Lab founder and CEO Sir Peter Beck, Synspective founder…

NASA will roll the fully assembled core stage for the agency’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket that will launch the first crewed Artemis mission out of NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans in mid-July. The 212-foot-tall stage will be loaded on the agency’s Pegasus barge for delivery to Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Media…

SpaceX Starship’s fourth flight test launched with ambitious goals, attempting to go farther than any previous test before and begin demonstrating capabilities central to the return and reuse of Starship and Super Heavy. The payload for this test was the data. On June 6, 2024, Starship successfully lifted off at 7:50 a.m. CT from Starbase…

Rocket Lab USA, one of the global leaders in launch services and space systems, successfully completed the second of two Electron launches for NASA’s PREFIRE (Polar Radiant Energy in the Far-InfraRed Experiment) climate change-focused mission, completing a turnaround of two launches within eleven days. ‘PREFIRE and Ice’ lifted-off from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 in…

Firefly Aerospace, an end-to-end space transportation company, announced it signed a multi-launch agreement with Lockheed Martin for 25 launches on Firefly’s Alpha rocket through 2029. This agreement commits Lockheed Martin to 15 launch reservations and 10 optional launches. “Firefly is honored to continue this partnership with Lockheed Martin and appreciates their confidence in our rapid launch…