#firefly alpha

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“If [the engine compartment] starts pointing toward space, you are having a bad problem and you will not go to space today.“

- XKCD, Up Goer Five

Image credit to Jack Beyer and NASASpaceflight.com

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Let's see how Alpha goes!

Let’s Try That Again: Firefly Aerospace Plans Next Alpha Launch

Firefly Aerospace is coming off of an all-time high. Their Blue Ghost lander has been the only fully successful mission of NASA’s Commercial

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Firefly Aerospace DREAM Flight to Launch Payloads Free of Charge

The Firefly Aerospace Dedicated Research and Education Accelerator Mission (DREAM) will offer payload capacity on maiden Alpha rocket launch free of charge.

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Firefly Aerospace demos its Lightning 1 engine to SXSW crowd

Firefly Aerospace demos its Lightning 1 engine to SXSW crowd

Firefly Aerospace tests its Lightning 1 engine on March 13, 2018. Photo Credit: Ryan Chylinski / SpaceFlight Insider

In a demo for a crowd of people from the Austin, Texas, South by Southwest festival, Firefly Aerospacefired its “Lightning 1” engine at 10 percent thrust for about a minute. The engine design will propel the second stage of the company’s “Firefly Alpha” rocket into space as early…

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Is Space Becoming More Accessible for Terrorists?

Is Space Becoming More Accessible for Terrorists? (part 2)

Sometime in the future, terrorists will be using space. Image from Nellyfus on Flickr. MoD added.

Part 2

In part 1 of these posts, we noted the United Kingdom’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) basically said it was worried that terrorists will put satellites up in space within 31 years from this year.  Then the MoD gave examples, which while related to space, weren’t satellites or rockets.  The article

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Finding Launch Cost Serenity with FireFly

The first Firefly-class space vehicle—just sayin’. Image hosted on Firefly’s wikia site.

The FireFly Alpha isn’t quite as interesting looking. BUT, I guess it’s real…Image hosted on fireflyspace.com.

SpaceX isn’t the only launch company boasting about cheap launch prices.  According to this GigaOm post, Fireflyis a company that will be trying to compete with SpaceX.  The rocket they’ll be using…

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