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FLTA006 (Message in a Booster)

Overview

Destination: Low Earth Orbit
Mission: Technology

Low Earth Orbit Space Launch Complex 2W Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA Probability: 90%

Sixth flight of the Firefly Alpha small satellite launcher, launching the demonstration mission for Lockheed Martin's new LM400 satellite bus, which will carry a communications payload. The satellite bus is customizable to support different missions, including remote sensing, communications, imagery and radar Earth observations. It can also support different kinds of orbits and launch configurations.

Updates

Cosmic_Penguin • April 29, 2025, 6:12 p.m.

Launch failure confirmed.

hitura-nobad • April 29, 2025, 1:37 p.m.

Liftoff!

LL2 • April 29, 2025, 12:53 p.m.

Official Webcast by Firefly Aerospace has started

Cosmic_Penguin • April 29, 2025, 12:16 a.m.

Confirmed rescheduling to April 29.

Cosmic_Penguin • April 28, 2025, 2:16 p.m.

Scrubbed for the day.

Firefly Alpha

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Firefly Alpha (Firefly α) is a two-stage orbital expendable launch vehicle developed by the American aerospace company Firefly Aerospace to cover the commercial small satellite launch market. Alpha is intended to provide launch options for both full vehicle and ride share customers.

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Specifications

Stages
2
Length
29.0 m
Diameter
1.82 m
Fairing Diameter
2.21 m
Launch Mass
54.0 T
Thrust
736.0 kN

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Name
Firefly Alpha
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Full Name
Firefly Alpha

Payload Capacity

Launch Cost
$15000000
Low Earth Orbit
1000.0 kg
Geostationary Transfer Orbit
―
Direct Geostationary
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Sun-Synchronous Capacity
630.0 kg

Firefly Aerospace

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CEO: Peter Schumacher Founded: 2014 Successes: 3 Failures: 3 Pending: 4

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Firefly Aerospace is an American private aerospace firm based in Austin, Texas, that develops small and medium-sized launch vehicles for commercial launches to orbit.

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