Firefly Alpha | FLTA004 Fly the Lightning
Space Launch Complex 2W
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
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FLTA004 Fly the Lightning
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.
Firefly Alpha
Height 29.00 Meters
Max Stages 2
Mass To GTO 0 kg
Liftoff Thrust 736 kN
Diameter 1.82 Meters
Mass To LEO 1000 kg
Liftoff Mass 54 Tonnes
Launch Success 3
Consecutive Success 1
Maiden Flight 2021-09-03
Launch Failures 2
Updates
Cosmic_Penguin
2023-12-23T05:48:45+0000
Updated launch status following confirmation of stage 2 2nd burn failure.
Cosmic_Penguin
2023-12-22T17:32:43+0000
Liftoff.
Cosmic_Penguin
2023-12-22T16:45:01+0000
Updated T-0.
LL2
2023-12-22T16:28:32+0000
Livestream has started
Cosmic_Penguin
2023-12-22T15:59:55+0000
Weather 40% GO.
Cosmic_Penguin
2023-12-22T14:29:09+0000
New T-0.
Cosmic_Penguin
2023-12-21T00:31:29+0000
Confirmed rescheduled for December 22.
Cosmic_Penguin
2023-12-20T19:24:10+0000
Tentatively planned for December 22.
Cosmic_Penguin
2023-12-20T15:43:38+0000
Scrubbed due to weather, next launch attempt TBD.
Nosu
2023-12-20T14:46:02+0000
Updating T-0
hitura-nobad
2023-12-20T13:53:57+0000
Weather 30% GO
hitura-nobad
2023-12-18T21:21:23+0000
Setting GO
Cosmic_Penguin
2023-12-17T03:57:44+0000
NET December 20 per marine navigation warnings.
hitura-nobad
2023-11-27T18:44:43+0000
Added launch
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