{"id":17735,"date":"2020-04-23T01:13:15","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T17:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/spaceflight-signs-up-as-anchor-customer-for-firefly-aerospace-launch-in-2021\/"},"modified":"2020-04-23T01:13:15","modified_gmt":"2020-04-22T17:13:15","slug":"spaceflight-signs-up-as-anchor-customer-for-firefly-aerospace-launch-in-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/spaceflight-signs-up-as-anchor-customer-for-firefly-aerospace-launch-in-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Spaceflight signs up as anchor customer for Firefly Aerospace launch in 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_560181\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-560181\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full-width wp-image-560181\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/200422-firefly-630x323.png\" alt=\"Firefly Alpha rocket\" width=\"630\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/200422-firefly-630x323.png 630w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/200422-firefly-768x394.png 768w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/200422-firefly.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\"><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" id=\"caption-attachment-560181\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An artist\u2019s conception shows Firefly Aerospace\u2019s Alpha rocket during stage separation. (Firefly Illustration)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Seattle-based Spaceflight Inc. has signed an agreement&nbsp;to secure most of the payload mass on a Firefly Aerospace rocket that\u2019s due to lift off from California\u2019s Vandenberg Air Force Base in 2021.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The agreement, announced today, establishes Spaceflight as the mission\u2019s anchor customer and commits the company to managing the logistics for multiple payloads on the Firefly Alpha rocket. That should help Firefly maximize use of the rocket\u2019s 630-kilogram (1,389-pound) capacity for a launch to sun-synchronous orbit.<\/li>\n<li>Texas-based Firefly Aerospace is planning to launch the Alpha on its maiden flight from Vandenberg later this year. The company suffered a setback in its rocket development program in January when a fire broke out during a first-stage qualification test, reportedly due to a software glitch.<\/li>\n<li>Spaceflight Inc. has handled logistics for the launch of 271 satellites on 29 rideshare missions, using rockets ranging from SpaceX\u2019s Falcon 9 to India\u2019s PSLV to Rocket Lab\u2019s Electron. In February, Spaceflight\u2019s parent company, Spaceflight Industries, announced an agreement to sell the launch services business to Japan\u2019s Mitsui &amp; Co. Ltd., subject to regulatory clearance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An artist\u2019s conception shows Firefly Aerospace\u2019s Alpha rocket during stage separation. (Firefly Illustration) Seattle-based Spaceflight Inc. has signed an agreement&nbsp;to secure most of the payload mass on a Firefly Aerospace rocket that\u2019s due to lift off from California\u2019s Vandenberg Air Force Base in 2021. The agreement, announced today, establishes Spaceflight as the mission\u2019s anchor customer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[443,20,442,2340],"class_list":["post-17735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-firefly-aerospace","tag-satellite","tag-satellites","tag-spaceflight"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17735"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}