{"id":50790,"date":"2024-08-08T00:04:07","date_gmt":"2024-08-07T16:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/l3harris-signs-on-for-20-more-firefly-alpha-launches\/"},"modified":"2024-08-08T00:04:07","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T16:04:07","slug":"l3harris-signs-on-for-20-more-firefly-alpha-launches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/l3harris-signs-on-for-20-more-firefly-alpha-launches\/","title":{"rendered":"L3Harris Signs On for 20 More Firefly Alpha Launches"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><b>L3Harris Technologies<\/b> signed a new launch agreement with <b>Firefly Aerospace<\/b> for up to 20 launches on Firefly\u2019s Alpha rocket. The deal announced Wednesday includes two to four missions per year from 2027 to 2031.<\/p>\n<p>This is in addition to a three-launch deal with L3Harris announced in September 2023.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The missions will launch L3Harris spacecraft into Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) from Firefly\u2019s SLC-2 launch site at the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Wednesday\u2019s announcement did not specify what payloads will be launched.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Firefly team is proud to build on our existing relationship with L3Harris and serve as a long-term launch provider for their robust satellite systems,\u201d said Peter Schumacher, Interim CEO at Firefly Aerospace. \u201cFirefly continues to see growing demand for Alpha\u2019s responsive small-lift services, and we\u2019re committed to providing a dedicated launch option that takes our customers directly to their preferred orbits.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>L3Harris Technologies signed a new launch agreement with Firefly Aerospace for up to 20 launches on Firefly\u2019s Alpha rocket. The deal announced Wednesday includes two to four missions per year from 2027 to 2031. This is in addition to a three-launch deal with L3Harris announced in September 2023.&nbsp; The missions will launch L3Harris spacecraft into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19921,"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":[],"class_list":["post-50790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50790"}],"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=50790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}