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Firefly Aerospace Alpha FLTA002 Mission Successfully Reaches Orbit

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Tom Patton
Oct 06, 2022
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Firefly Aerospace has announced that its Alpha FLTA002 mission successfully reached orbit and deployed customer payloads, lifting off on October 1 at 12:01am PST from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.

“Proving our flight and deployment capabilities on only our second attempt is a testament to the maturity of our technology and the expertise of o…

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