{"id":6398,"date":"2024-10-28T19:50:23","date_gmt":"2024-10-28T11:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/firefly-aerospace-selected-as-approved-vendor-for-space-development-agencys-halo-program\/"},"modified":"2024-10-28T19:50:23","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T11:50:23","slug":"firefly-aerospace-selected-as-approved-vendor-for-space-development-agencys-halo-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/firefly-aerospace-selected-as-approved-vendor-for-space-development-agencys-halo-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefly Aerospace Selected as Approved Vendor for Space Development Agency’s HALO Program"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Firefly<\/p>\n

Firefly Aerospace, an end-to-end space transportation company, announced it was selected as a vendor for the U.S. Department of Defense\u2019s Space Development Agency (SDA) Hybrid Acquisition for Proliferated LEO (HALO) program. Firefly is now eligible to support rapid, end-to-end demonstration missions for SDA\u2019s military satellites utilizing Firefly\u2019s Elytra orbital vehicles.<\/p>\n

\u201cFirefly is honored to support the Space Development Agency\u2019s growing military satellite constellation,\u201d said Jason Kim, CEO at Firefly Aerospace.<\/strong> \u201cWe\u2019re seeing an increasing demand for advanced in-space capabilities, including both prototype and feasibility demonstrations that support critical joint warfighter terrestrial missions with rapid and affordable commercial services. Firefly is ready to meet that demand with our robust space vehicles that utilize common components across our product lines to provide technical and schedule confidence for a diverse set of customers.\u201d<\/p>\n

SDA\u2019s HALO program was established to enable a fast and flexible contracting mechanism to award Tranche 2 Demonstration and Experimentation System (T2DES) missions and other demonstrations that support SDA\u2019s military satellite constellation in low-Earth orbit. The missions include launch, on-orbit transport, and tracking services delivered within 18 months of each award to advance SDA\u2019s national security objectives.<\/p>\n

\u201cSDA is proud to welcome 19 vendors into the first-ever HALO pool,\u201d said SDA Director Derek Tournear.<\/strong> \u201cThis creative award solution enables SDA to quickly compete, build, and fly demonstration missions to burn down risk for the future of the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture. We also hope, through the HALO pool, to build a broader base of vendors that can compete for work on operational layers of future tranches.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now eligible to support SDA HALO missions, Firefly\u2019s Elytra orbital vehicle can be launched aboard the company\u2019s small-lift Alpha rocket, new Medium Launch Vehicle, or as part of a rideshare with a third-party launch vehicle. Firefly\u2019s line of Elytra vehicles offers responsive on-orbit services and dynamic space operations, including last-mile satellite delivery, advanced payload hosting, edge computing, optical communications terminals, and de-orbiting services to meet customers\u2019 urgent mission needs.<\/p>\n

Firefly\u2019s first Elytra mission is scheduled to launch aboard Alpha in the coming months, further validating the company\u2019s capabilities to rapidly launch, maneuver, and deploy satellites at a time and place of customers\u2019 choosing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Firefly Aerospace, an end-to-end space transportation company, announced it was selected as a vendor for the U.S. Department of Defense\u2019s Space Development Agency (SDA) Hybrid Acquisition for Proliferated LEO (HALO) program. Firefly is now eligible to support rapid, end-to-end demonstration missions for SDA\u2019s military satellites utilizing Firefly\u2019s Elytra orbital vehicles. \u201cFirefly is honored to support […]<\/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":[26,25,38,20],"class_list":["post-6398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ground","tag-launch","tag-leo","tag-satellite"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6398"}],"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=6398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}