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Firefly AerospaceMixed resultTechnologyFirefly Alpha · Fly the Lightning
Launched 2023-12-22 17:32:30 UTCSpace Launch Complex 2W, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Stage 2 2nd burn suffered problems and did not deliver the payload to its precise target orbit. Communication to the spacecraft has been established and mission operations are now underway.
From Launch Library 2 · updated
Partial failure
Target: Low Earth Orbit
Firefly Alpha lifted off with FLTA004 (Fly the Lightning), but the launch was only a partial success.
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No cause has been given yet. What Firefly Aerospace finds will be added here, and to the updates below.
Firefly’s Alpha rocket will launch Lockheed Martin’s new wideband Electronically Steerable Antenna (ESA) technology integrated on a Terran Orbital Nebula satellite bus. Developed within Lockheed Martin Space’s Ignite organization using a proprietary design, the ESA payload will demonstrate faster on-orbit sensor calibration to deliver rapid capabilities to U.S. warfighters.
Launch Provider
Commercial · United States of America · Founded 2014 · CEO Peter Schumacher
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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Updated launch status following confirmation of stage 2 2nd burn failure.
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Liftoff.
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Updated T-0.
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Livestream has started
Launch Library 2
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Weather 40% GO.
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New T-0.
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Confirmed rescheduled for December 22.
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Tentatively planned for December 22.
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Scrubbed due to weather, next launch attempt TBD.
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Updating T-0
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Weather 30% GO
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Setting GO
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NET December 20 per marine navigation warnings.
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Added launch
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Height
29.6m
Diameter
1.8m
To low Earth orbit
1,000kg
Liftoff thrust
736kN
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