Astra, the small launch company that recently went public, has signed a roughly $30 million deal for the rights to manufacture Firefly Aerospace’s Reaver rocket engines in-house, according to a ...

American-manufactured vehicle will launch space station resupply, commercial, and national security Similar to two celestial ...

And this weekend, the first of these companies, Firefly, reached orbit with its Alpha rocket. Powered by four Reaver engines, the Alpha rocket lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base at 12:01 ...

Jason Kim, the new CEO of rocket and spacecraft builder Firefly Aerospace, said he is "going to work maniacally" to scale the ...

Alpha FLTA006 was the second mission Firefly launched for Lockheed Martin and the first of 25 planned missions over the next five years. In September 2021, one of Alpha's four first-stage Reaver ...

Their main conflict is staying ahead of the Alliance and other threats, including the dangerous Reavers. Firefly blends Western and futuristic science fiction to create a frontier-like society ...

Firefly scored a huge success today (Oct. 1 ... one of the rocket's four first-stage Reaver engines shut down prematurely, leading to the loss of the mission. Things went better today; Alpha ...

Firefly utilized the same patented tap-off cycle architecture from Alpha’s Reaver and Lightning engines for Eclipse’s Miranda and Vira engines, and completed mission duty cycle with a 206 ...