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Mission Highlight: Stairway to Seven Firefly Aerospace is targeting Friday, Feb. 20, at 7:20 p.m. EST for the launch of its ...

Shares for Central Texas-based Firefly Aerospace began trading on the Nasdaq market Thursday. The company, which landed a spacecraft on the moon in March, celebrated by igniting a rocket engine north ...

Still riding the high of successfully landing a spacecraft on the moon, Firefly Aerospace this week was reminded of the challenges of space flight when one of its Alpha rockets failed to reach orbit ...

A small rocket that took off from Vandenberg Space Force Base on Tuesday morning ended up in the Pacific Ocean north of Antarctica after a mishap occurred a few minutes into the launch. Firefly ...

Update, 4:20 p.m.: Firefly has once again delayed the rocket launch to the furthest edge of its launch window. The rocket will now launch at 6:59 p.m. Update, 3:50 p.m.: Firefly is now targeting a ...

A violent rocket explosion in Texas recently sent a cascade of fire and plumes of billowing smoke into the air that was captured on video. Firefly Aerospace's Alpha rocket blew up in dramatic fashion ...

April 30 (UPI) --A Firefly Aerospace rocket launched from California crashed into the Pacific Ocean north of Antarctica, failing to place into low-Earth orbit a satellite for Lockheed Martin. This was ...

Northrop Grumman and Firefly Aerospace have given a name to the future medium-lift rocket they plan to build: Eclipse. The two companies are already partnered to help shepherd a new version of ...

Usually, if a rocket is going to explode, it'll do it near launch, or close to the point of maximum dynamic pressure (Max-Q). But in the case of the Firefly Aerospace rocket earlier this week, it ...