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Firefly's stated purpose is to increase access to space,<a href="#cite_note-ars20141130-4">[4]</a> similar to other <a href="/wiki/Private_spaceflight" title="Private spaceflight">private spaceflight</a> companies. <table class="infobox ib-company vcard"><caption class="infobox-title fn org" style="font-size: 125%;">Firefly Aerospace</caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image ib-company-logo logo"><a href="/wiki/File:Firefly_Aerospace.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/92/Firefly_Aerospace.svg/220px-Firefly_Aerospace.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="35" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/92/Firefly_Aerospace.svg/330px-Firefly_Aerospace.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/92/Firefly_Aerospace.svg/440px-Firefly_Aerospace.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="82"></a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Industry</th><td class="infobox-data category"><a href="/wiki/Aerospace_industry" class="mw-redirect" title="Aerospace industry">Aerospace</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Founded</th><td class="infobox-data">March 2017; 8 years ago (2017-03)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Founder</th><td class="infobox-data agent">Tom Markusic</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Headquarters</th><td class="infobox-data adr"><div class="ib-company-locality locality"><a href="/wiki/Cedar_Park,_Texas" title="Cedar Park, Texas">Cedar Park, Texas</a></div>, <div class="ib-company-country country-name">United States</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Key people</div></th><td class="infobox-data agent">Jason Kim (<a href="/wiki/Chief_executive_officer" title="Chief executive officer">CEO</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Products</th><td class="infobox-data">Alpha (small-lift launch vehicle) MLV (medium-lift launch vehicle) Blue Ghost (lunar lander) Elytra (space tug)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Number of employees</div></th><td class="infobox-data">750</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://fireflyspace.com/">fireflyspace.com</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="display:none"><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr"><h2 id="mw-toc-heading">Contents</h2><label class="toctogglelabel" for="toctogglecheckbox"></label></div> <ul> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#History">1 History</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-2"><a href="#Firefly_Space_Systems">1.1 Firefly Space Systems</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-3"><a href="#Early_growth">1.1.1 Early growth</a></li> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-4"><a href="#Litigation_and_closure">1.1.2 Litigation and closure</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5"><a href="#Firefly_Aerospace">1.2 Firefly Aerospace</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6"><a href="#Launch_vehicles">2 Launch vehicles</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7"><a href="#Firefly_Alpha">2.1 Firefly Alpha</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-8"><a href="#MLV">2.2 MLV</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-9"><a href="#Previous_designs">2.2.1 Previous designs</a></li> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-10"><a href="#Current_design">2.2.2 Current design</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-11"><a href="#Antares_300">2.3 Antares 300</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-12"><a href="#Firefly_Gamma">2.4 Firefly Gamma</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-13"><a href="#Lunar_landers">3 Lunar landers</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-14"><a href="#Blue_Ghost">3.1 Blue Ghost</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-15"><a href="#Genesis_(defunct)">3.2 Genesis (defunct)</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-16"><a href="#Engines">4 Engines</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-17"><a href="#Reaver">4.1 Reaver</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-18"><a href="#Lightning">4.2 Lightning</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-19"><a href="#Miranda">4.3 Miranda</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-20"><a href="#Vira">4.4 Vira</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-21"><a href="#Elytra">5 Elytra</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-22"><a href="#Production">6 Production</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-23"><a href="#See_also">7 See also</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-24"><a href="#References">8 References</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-25"><a href="#External_links">9 External links</a></li> </ul> </div> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(1)"><h2 id="History">History</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Firefly_Aerospace&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-1 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-1"> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Firefly_Space_Systems">Firefly Space Systems</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Firefly_Aerospace&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Firefly Space Systems" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Early_growth">Early growth</h4> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Firefly_Aerospace&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Early growth" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> Firefly Space Systems began as a <a href="/wiki/Startup_company" title="Startup company">startup</a> in January 2014<a href="#cite_note-ns20140708-5">[5]</a> by Tom Markusic, P.J. King, Michael Blum,<a href="#cite_note-youtube.com-6">[6]</a> and a small group of entrepreneurs who self-funded the company. In November 2014, Firefly moved its headquarters from <a href="/wiki/Hawthorne,_California" title="Hawthorne, California">Hawthorne, California</a> to <a href="/wiki/Austin,_Texas" title="Austin, Texas">Austin</a>-suburb <a href="/wiki/Cedar_Park,_Texas" title="Cedar Park, Texas">Cedar Park, Texas</a>.<a href="#cite_note-db20140914-7">[7]</a><a href="#cite_note-ars20141130-4">[4]</a> It grew to 43 employees by November 2014,<a href="#cite_note-ars20141130-4">[4]</a> and purchased 215 acres (87 ha) of land for an <a href="/wiki/Rocket_engine" title="Rocket engine">engine</a> test and manufacturing<a href="#cite_note-tom20150623-8">[8]</a> facility in <a href="/wiki/Briggs,_Texas" title="Briggs, Texas">Briggs, Texas</a>, 50 miles (80 km) north of Austin.<a href="#cite_note-aw20140825-9">[9]</a> In 2014, Firefly purchased fiber-winding equipment for manufacturing <a href="/wiki/Composite_materials" class="mw-redirect" title="Composite materials">composite</a> <a href="/wiki/Cryogenic_rocket_engine" title="Cryogenic rocket engine">cryotanks</a> that would be built using an out-of-autoclave process. Prototype tanks were tested at <a href="/wiki/Marshall_Space_Flight_Center" title="Marshall Space Flight Center">Marshall Space Flight Center</a> of <a href="/wiki/NASA" title="NASA">NASA</a> in mid-2014.<a href="#cite_note-aw20140825-9">[9]</a> The Firefly Alpha design was revealed in July 2014.<a href="#cite_note-ns20140708-5">[5]</a> Firefly's objective was to be cash-flow-positive by 2018, based on anticipated <a href="/wiki/Small_satellite" title="Small satellite">small-satellite</a> business.<a href="#cite_note-ars20141130-4">[4]</a> Firefly had signed an agreement with <a href="/wiki/Space_Florida" title="Space Florida">Space Florida</a> to launch from <a href="/wiki/Space_Coast" title="Space Coast">the Florida "Space Coast"</a>. Firefly performed its first hot-fire engine test of the "Firefly Rocket Engine Research 1" (FRE-R1) on September 10, 2015.<a href="#cite_note-10">[10]</a><a href="#cite_note-sc20150910-11">[11]</a> The initial demonstration launch of the Firefly Alpha was planned to be as early as 2016.<a href="#cite_note-12">[12]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Litigation_and_closure">Litigation and closure</h4> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Firefly_Aerospace&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Litigation and closure" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> In December 2014, Tom Markusic's former employer Virgin Galactic alleged he had illegally provided Virgin intellectual property to the Alpha development team. Virgin also alleged that Markusic had "destroyed storage devices, disposed of computers, and reformatted hard drives to cover the tracks of his misappropriation of Virgin Galactic information".<a href="#cite_note-13">[13]</a> In August 2016, an independent <a href="/wiki/Arbitral_tribunal" title="Arbitral tribunal">arbitrator</a> confirmed that Markusic had destroyed evidence. Thereafter, a major European investor backed down, leaving Firefly without sufficient money to proceed. The company furloughed its entire staff in October 2016. According to Markusic, the investor's drawback was not related to the litigation but to <a href="/wiki/Brexit" title="Brexit">Brexit</a>.<a href="#cite_note-sn20161003-14">[14]</a> Within the same month, Virgin Orbit filed suit in <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_County_Superior_Court" title="Los Angeles County Superior Court">Los Angeles County Superior Court</a> against Firefly and two of its officers.<a href="#cite_note-15">[15]</a> By December 1, 2016, Firefly Space Systems had permanently ceased engineering work.<a href="#cite_note-sn20161003-14">[14]</a> In March 2017, it was announced that "virtually all" of the assets of Firefly would be sold at auction, organized by EOS Launcher, Inc., who had previously bought a US$1 million <a href="/wiki/Promissory_note" title="Promissory note">promissory note</a> issued by Firefly to <a href="/wiki/Space_Florida" title="Space Florida">Space Florida</a> and induced a <a href="/wiki/Foreclosure" title="Foreclosure">foreclosure</a>.<a href="#cite_note-16">[16]</a><a href="#cite_note-17">[17]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Firefly_Aerospace">Firefly Aerospace</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Firefly_Aerospace&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Firefly Aerospace" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> After going bankrupt and being liquidated in March 2017, the company was re-created as Firefly Aerospace by Noosphere Ventures,<a href="#cite_note-18">[18]</a> who bought out the assets of former Firefly Space Systems.<a href="#cite_note-:1-1">[1]</a> The owner of Noosphere Ventures, <a href="/wiki/Max_Polyakov" title="Max Polyakov">Max Polyakov</a>,<a href="#cite_note-19">[19]</a> committed to fully fund Firefly through at least its first two launches.<a href="#cite_note-20">[20]</a> The plans for engine development were significantly altered by the new management, and the revised Alpha vehicle design featured a pump-fed engine[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">failed verification</a>] and removed the aerospike configuration.<a href="#cite_note-:3-21">[21]</a> The reorganization initially delayed development by approximately a year, with the first launch expected, as of 2017<a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Firefly_Aerospace&action=edit">[update]</a>, in 2019.<a href="#cite_note-22">[22]</a><figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Firefly_Aerospace_Ukraine.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Firefly_Aerospace_Ukraine.jpg/220px-Firefly_Aerospace_Ukraine.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="133" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="1152" data-file-height="695"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 133px;" data-mw-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Firefly_Aerospace_Ukraine.jpg/220px-Firefly_Aerospace_Ukraine.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="133" data-mw-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Firefly_Aerospace_Ukraine.jpg/330px-Firefly_Aerospace_Ukraine.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Firefly_Aerospace_Ukraine.jpg/440px-Firefly_Aerospace_Ukraine.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/President_of_Ukraine" title="President of Ukraine">President of Ukraine</a> <a href="/wiki/Petro_Poroshenko" title="Petro Poroshenko">Petro Poroshenko</a> at the opening of a Ukrainian branch</figcaption></figure> On May 17, 2018, Firefly Aerospace opened a <a href="/wiki/Research_and_development" title="Research and development">Research and development</a> (R&D) center in the city of <a href="/wiki/Dnipro" title="Dnipro">Dnipro</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ukraine" title="Ukraine">Ukraine</a>.<a href="#cite_note-23">[23]</a> The Firefly R&D center was announced to become, over time, a place of work for more than 150 employees, and is equipped with the largest <a href="/wiki/3D-printer" class="mw-redirect" title="3D-printer">3D-printer</a> in Ukraine, intended for industrial manufacturing of high-quality metal parts.<a href="#cite_note-Dnipro_2018-24">[24]</a> On October 10, 2018, Firefly Aerospace and smallsat developer York Space Systems announced a partnership to offer customers a combined package of satellite and launch services.<a href="#cite_note-York_Space_Systems_2018-25">[25]</a> In November 2018, it was announced that <a href="/wiki/NASA" title="NASA">NASA</a> selected Firefly Aerospace as one of nine companies able to bid for <a href="/wiki/Commercial_Lunar_Payload_Services" title="Commercial Lunar Payload Services">Commercial Lunar Payload Services</a> (CLPS),<a href="#cite_note-26">[26]</a> where the company would propose a robotic lunar lander called Firefly Genesis.<a href="#cite_note-Deal_2019-27">[27]</a> In February 2019, the company announced that it would develop manufacturing facilities and a launch site at <a href="/wiki/Cape_Canaveral_Space_Force_Station" title="Cape Canaveral Space Force Station">Cape Canaveral</a>.<a href="#cite_note-28">[28]</a> They have leased a private launch pad in <a href="/wiki/Florida" title="Florida">Florida</a> — the former <a href="/wiki/Cape_Canaveral_Space_Launch_Complex_20" title="Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 20">Space Launch Complex 20</a> (SLC-20) which had been used by the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Air_Force" title="United States Air Force">U.S. Air Force</a> in the 1950s through 1996 — from the <a href="/wiki/Federal_government_of_the_United_States" title="Federal government of the United States">U.S. government</a> and they also have a similar lease arrangement on the <a href="/wiki/West_Coast_of_the_United_States" title="West Coast of the United States">U.S. West Coast</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Verge_Feb2019-29">[29]</a> In December 2019, a group of primary shareholders of Firefly Space Systems filed a lawsuit alleging fraud and intentional bankruptcy of the company by Tom Markusic. According to the defendants, including Polyakov, the lawsuit was provocative and the plaintiffs' claims unfounded, three years after the updated Firefly Aerospace was a significant success. The lawsuit is pending.<a href="#cite_note-30">[30]</a> In February 2021, <a href="/wiki/NASA" title="NASA">NASA</a> awarded approximately US$93.3 million to Firefly Aerospace to develop exploration technologies for <a href="/wiki/Artemis_program" title="Artemis program">Artemis</a> Commercial Moon Delivery in 2023.<a href="#cite_note-NASA20210204-31">[31]</a> The company completed its $75 million Series A investment round in May 2021, which was led by DADA Holdings.<a href="#cite_note-32">[32]</a> Firefly launched its first <a href="/wiki/Test_article_(aerospace)" title="Test article (aerospace)">test</a> <a href="/wiki/Flight_test" title="Flight test">flight</a> on September 3, 2021. The Firefly Alpha rocket experienced an anomaly during ascent, and the Range terminated the flight using the explosive <a href="/wiki/Range_safety" title="Range safety">Flight Termination System</a> (FTS).<a href="#cite_note-sn20210902-33">[33]</a> In late November 2021, Maxim Polyakov received a letter from the US Committee on Foreign Investment (CFIUS) asking Polyakov and his investment firm Noosphere Venture Partners to sell a stake in Firefly (nearly 50%) for national security reasons. Polyakov denied the threat to US national security, but agreed to comply. Noosphere Ventures has announced that it will hire an investment banking firm to sell. Even before the start of the <a href="/wiki/Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine" title="Russian invasion of Ukraine">Russian invasion of Ukraine</a>, the future of the Firefly R&D center in Ukraine was uncertain; after the invasion started, the Dnipro factory was bombed and many of the Ukrainian engineers either joined the army or fled the country.<a href="#cite_note-34">[34]</a><a href="#cite_note-:4-35">[35]</a> The government did not give reasons beyond Polyakov was Ukrainian and Ukraine and Russia had once worked together on rockets.<a href="#cite_note-:4-35">[35]</a> Despite Polyakov's anger,<a href="#cite_note-:4-35">[35]</a> he agreed, and on February 24, 2022, it was announced that Polyakov and his company Noosphere would sell their stake in Firefly to AE Industrial Partners.<a href="#cite_note-36">[36]</a> In August 2022, <a href="/wiki/Northrop_Grumman" title="Northrop Grumman">Northrop Grumman</a> announced that it had contracted Firefly Aerospace to build the <a href="/wiki/Antares_rocket" class="mw-redirect" title="Antares rocket">Antares rocket</a>'s new 300-series' first stage, which is similar to Firefly's in-development MLV launch vehicle, and features the same composite structures as well as seven Miranda engines producing 7,200 kN (1,600,000 lbf) of thrust — substantially greater than the previous 200-series first stage. Northrop Grumman states that the new first stage substantially increases the mass capability of <a href="/wiki/Antares_(rocket)" title="Antares (rocket)">Antares</a>.<a href="#cite_note-ng-antares-37">[37]</a><a href="#cite_note-spacenewsfirefly-38">[38]</a> On October 1, 2022, Firefly launched the <a href="/wiki/Firefly_Alpha" title="Firefly Alpha">Alpha</a> rocket on its second test flight “To the Black” from <a href="/wiki/Vandenberg_Space_Launch_Complex_2" title="Vandenberg Space Launch Complex 2">Space Launch Complex 2</a> from <a href="/wiki/Vandenberg_Space_Force_Base" title="Vandenberg Space Force Base">Vandenberg Space Force Base</a>. Alpha completed all objectives (that Firefly had itself placed) for the mission, becoming the first orbital rocket to be powered by a <a href="/wiki/Combustion_tap-off_cycle" title="Combustion tap-off cycle">tap-off cycle</a> engine. The mission was the first partially successful orbital launch for Alpha, carrying educational payloads. Alpha deployed 7 satellites, however, due to the lower than intended final deployment orbit, most of the satellites re-entered approximately a week after launch. On September 14, 2023, Firefly successfully launched the Alpha rocket on its first mission for the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Defense" title="United States Department of Defense">United States Department of Defense</a>, placing a spacecraft for Millenium Space into orbit and demonstrating rapid response launch for the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Armed_Forces" title="United States Armed Forces">United States Armed Forces</a>.<a href="#cite_note-39">[39]</a> In 2024, it was announced that Firefly would compete with the likes of <a href="/wiki/Rocket_Lab" title="Rocket Lab">Rocket Lab</a> and <a href="/wiki/SpaceX" title="SpaceX">SpaceX</a> for small satellite launch contracts with the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Defense" title="United States Department of Defense">United States Department of Defense</a>.<a href="#cite_note-40">[40]</a> In July 2024, CEO Bill Weber resigned amid reports the company was investigating an alleged inappropriate relationship. Peter Schumacher, a board member, served as interim CEO while the company searched for a new CEO.<a href="#cite_note-41">[41]</a> On August 29, 2024, it was announced that the next CEO would be Jason Kim who served in the role at Millennium Space.<a href="#cite_note-42">[42]</a> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(2)"><h2 id="Launch_vehicles">Launch vehicles</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Firefly_Aerospace&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Launch vehicles" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-2 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-2"> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Firefly_Alpha">Firefly Alpha</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Firefly_Aerospace&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Firefly Alpha" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Firefly_Alpha" title="Firefly Alpha">Firefly Alpha</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Firefly_Alpha_1st_Flight.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Firefly_Alpha_1st_Flight.jpg/220px-Firefly_Alpha_1st_Flight.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="262" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="3105" data-file-height="3697"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 262px;" data-mw-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Firefly_Alpha_1st_Flight.jpg/220px-Firefly_Alpha_1st_Flight.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="262" data-mw-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Firefly_Alpha_1st_Flight.jpg/330px-Firefly_Alpha_1st_Flight.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Firefly_Alpha_1st_Flight.jpg/440px-Firefly_Alpha_1st_Flight.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>Firefly Alpha lifting off the pad at Vandenberg Space Force Base on September 2, 2021</figcaption></figure> The Alpha vehicle developed by Firefly Aerospace is an <a href="/wiki/Expendable_launch_system" title="Expendable launch system">expendable</a> <a href="/wiki/Launch_vehicle" title="Launch vehicle">launch vehicle</a> capable of lifting 1,030 kg (2,270 lb) to <a href="/wiki/Orbital_spaceflight" title="Orbital spaceflight">low Earth orbit</a> and 630 kg (1,390 lb) to <a href="/wiki/Sun-synchronous_orbit" title="Sun-synchronous orbit">Sun-synchronous orbit</a>. Firefly's advertised launch price is US$15 million. Alpha is designed to compete with vehicles like <a href="/wiki/Rocket_Lab" title="Rocket Lab">Rocket Lab</a>'s Electron, <a href="/wiki/ISRO" title="ISRO">ISRO</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Polar_Satellite_Launch_Vehicle" title="Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle">PSLV</a>, <a href="/wiki/ABL_Space_Systems" class="mw-redirect" title="ABL Space Systems">ABL SS</a>'s <a href="/wiki/RS1_(rocket)" title="RS1 (rocket)">RS1</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Northrop_Grumman_Space_Systems_Group" class="mw-redirect" title="Northrop Grumman Space Systems Group">Northrop Grumman</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Northrop_Grumman_Pegasus" title="Northrop Grumman Pegasus">Pegasus</a>. It uses four Reaver engines on its first stage and one Lightning engine on its second, with a lightweight <a href="/wiki/Carbon-fiber-reinforced_polymer" class="mw-redirect" title="Carbon-fiber-reinforced polymer">carbon composite</a> structure to reduce dry mass, resulting in an improved payload fraction.<a href="#cite_note-43">[43]</a> Alpha performed its first partially successful orbital launch on October 1, 2022, after an unsuccessful first attempt on September 3, 2021.<a href="#cite_note-44">[44]</a> The first fully successful launch of Alpha took place on September 15, 2023. Firefly launched this mission 27 hours after receiving notice to launch, setting a new national security mission responsive-launch record.<a href="#cite_note-:5-45">[45]</a> The previous responsive-launch record was 21 days in June 2021.<a href="#cite_note-46">[46]</a><a href="#cite_note-:5-45">[45]</a> Firefly's fourth launch on December 22, 2023 was also partially successful, with the second stage failing to perform its circularization burn, leaving its payload in an elliptical orbit instead.<a href="#cite_note-47">[47]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="MLV">MLV</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Firefly_Aerospace&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: MLV" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Medium_Launch_Vehicle" title="Medium Launch Vehicle">Medium Launch Vehicle</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Previous_designs">Previous designs</h4> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Firefly_Aerospace&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Previous designs" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> Firefly previously pursued a <a href="/wiki/Medium-lift_launch_vehicle" title="Medium-lift launch vehicle">medium-lift launch vehicle</a> design known as Firefly Beta, which consisted of three Alpha cores strapped together.<a href="#cite_note-AirForce_Approval-48">[48]</a> In October 2019, Firefly announced a partnership with <a href="/wiki/Aerojet_Rocketdyne" title="Aerojet Rocketdyne">Aerojet Rocketdyne</a> to develop a single core rocket potentially powered by the <a href="/wiki/Aerojet_Rocketdyne_AR1" title="Aerojet Rocketdyne AR1">Aerojet Rocketdyne AR1</a> engine.<a href="#cite_note-49">[49]</a> In 2020, the Beta was redesigned to be a scaled up Alpha. The first stage would be 3.7 m (12 ft) in diameter with 5 Reaver 2 engines capable of delivering 8000 kg to LEO or 5800 kg to SSO inside a 4.7 m (15 ft) fairing. In October 2021, the first Beta launch was planned for the second half of 2024.<a href="#cite_note-50">[50]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Current_design">Current design</h4> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Firefly_Aerospace&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Current design" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> Since its announcement in August 2022, the MLV design has undergone several revisions.<a href="#cite_note-51">[51]</a> Now known as the Medium Launch Vehicle, or MLV, the rocket is now 4.32 m (14.17 ft) in diameter with 7 <a href="#Miranda">Miranda engines</a> on the first stage and 1 Vira engine on the second stage.<a href="#cite_note-Antares_330_testing-52">[52]</a> It will be capable of delivering over 16,000 kg to LEO in a 5 m (16.4 ft) fairing.<a href="#cite_note-MLV1-53">[53]</a> The first MLV launch is scheduled for the second half of 2026<a href="#cite_note-54">[54]</a> from Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. MLV will initially be expendable but will eventually "incorporate first-stage reusability."<a href="#cite_note-55">[55]</a> In April 2024, the company reported on social media that it was progressing and on track with Miranda engine testing for the MLV.<a href="#cite_note-56">[56]</a> In mid-2024, the company added that the MLV's first stage is being architected for <a href="/wiki/Reusable_launch_vehicle" title="Reusable launch vehicle">return to launch site</a> landings, and hope to have the technology refined by flight 6 of the vehicle.<a href="#cite_note-57">[57]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Antares_300">Antares 300</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Firefly_Aerospace&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Antares 300" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Antares_300" class="mw-redirect" title="Antares 300">Antares 300</a></div> Firefly is a subcontractor for the <a href="/wiki/Northrop_Grumman" title="Northrop Grumman">Northrop Grumman</a> <a href="/wiki/Antares_300" class="mw-redirect" title="Antares 300">Antares series 300</a>, providing the first stage, which consists of a de-rated MLV first stage. The second stage is carried over from the previous <a href="/wiki/Antares_230%2B" class="mw-redirect" title="Antares 230+">Antares 230+</a>. Wallops LP-0A is being retrofitted to support the new, larger, more powerful first stage.<a href="#cite_note-spacenewsfirefly-38">[38]</a><a href="#cite_note-ng-antares-37">[37]</a><a href="#cite_note-58">[58]</a> In April 2024, the company announced testing was occurring on the Antares 300.<a href="#cite_note-59">[59]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Firefly_Gamma">Firefly Gamma</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Firefly_Aerospace&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Firefly Gamma" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Firefly_Engine_Test.jpeg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a6/Firefly_Engine_Test.jpeg/400px-Firefly_Engine_Test.jpeg" decoding="async" width="400" height="223" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="422" data-file-height="235"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 400px;height: 223px;" data-mw-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a6/Firefly_Engine_Test.jpeg/400px-Firefly_Engine_Test.jpeg" data-width="400" data-height="223" data-mw-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a6/Firefly_Engine_Test.jpeg 1.5x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>Firefly FRE-R1 engine test, September 2015</figcaption></figure>Firefly Gamma was a concept of a winged rocket to launch small payloads into orbit. It would have been a <a href="/wiki/Two-stage-to-orbit" title="Two-stage-to-orbit">two-stage-to-orbit</a> <a href="/wiki/Reusable_launch_vehicle" title="Reusable launch vehicle">partially reusable rocket</a>, with its first stage <a href="/wiki/VTHL" class="mw-redirect" title="VTHL">landing horizontally</a> on a runway.<a href="#cite_note-60">[60]</a><a href="#cite_note-61">[61]</a> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(3)"><h2 id="Lunar_landers">Lunar landers</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Firefly_Aerospace&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Lunar landers" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-3 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-3"> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Blue_Ghost">Blue Ghost</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Firefly_Aerospace&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Blue Ghost" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Firefly_Aerospace_Blue_Ghost" title="Firefly Aerospace Blue Ghost">Firefly Aerospace Blue Ghost</a></div> Blue Ghost is a class of <a href="/wiki/Lunar_lander" title="Lunar lander">lunar landers</a> designed at Firefly's Cedar Park facility to meet the updated <a href="/wiki/NASA" title="NASA">NASA</a> requirements for a <a href="/wiki/Commercial_Lunar_Payload_Services" title="Commercial Lunar Payload Services">Commercial Lunar Payload Services</a> (CLPS) lunar lander. The lander is named after the blue ghost firefly <a href="/wiki/Phausis_reticulata" title="Phausis reticulata">Phausis reticulata</a>.<a href="#cite_note-62">[62]</a> On 15 January 2025, <a href="/wiki/Blue_Ghost_M1" class="mw-redirect" title="Blue Ghost M1">Blue Ghost M1</a>, the first Firefly lander, launched on a <a href="/wiki/Falcon_9_Block_5" title="Falcon 9 Block 5">Falcon 9 Block 5</a> launch vehicle and it landed successfully on 2 March 2025. The launch was shared with the competing <a href="/wiki/Hakuto-R_Mission_2" title="Hakuto-R Mission 2">Hakuto-R Mission 2</a> lunar lander.<a href="#cite_note-63">[63]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Genesis_(defunct)">Genesis (defunct)</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Firefly_Aerospace&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Genesis (defunct)" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> On June 9, 2019, Firefly Aerospace announced that it had signed an agreement with <a href="/wiki/Israel_Aerospace_Industries" title="Israel Aerospace Industries">Israel Aerospace Industries</a> (IAI), which owns the intellectual property of the <a href="/wiki/Beresheet" title="Beresheet">Beresheet</a> lunar lander design, to build a lunar lander named Genesis based on Beresheet.<a href="#cite_note-Deal_2019-27">[27]</a><a href="#cite_note-Verge_Beta_2019-64">[64]</a><a href="#cite_note-Genesis_Home-65">[65]</a> Genesis was proposed for NASA's <a href="/wiki/Commercial_Lunar_Payload_Services" title="Commercial Lunar Payload Services">Commercial Lunar Payload Services</a> (CLPS) to deliver payloads to the surface of the Moon.<a href="#cite_note-Deal_2019-27">[27]</a><a href="#cite_note-Verge_Beta_2019-64">[64]</a> If selected, Firefly Genesis would have been launched on a Firefly Beta rocket<a href="#cite_note-Verge_Beta_2019-64">[64]</a> or a <a href="/wiki/Falcon_9" title="Falcon 9">Falcon 9</a> rocket<a href="#cite_note-Genesis_Home-65">[65]</a> in late 2022.<a href="#cite_note-SFN20200401-66">[66]</a> Due to changing CLPS specifications, Firefly determined that Genesis no longer fit NASA's requirements and started work on the Blue Ghost in 2021.<a href="#cite_note-sn-20210204-67">[67]</a> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(4)"><h2 id="Engines">Engines</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Firefly_Aerospace&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Engines" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-4 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-4"> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+link+.ambox{margin-top:-1px}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small-left{margin:4px 1em 4px 0;overflow:hidden;width:238px;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output .ambox-speedy{border-left:10px solid #b32424;background-color:#fee7e6}.mw-parser-output .ambox-delete{border-left:10px solid #b32424}.mw-parser-output .ambox-content{border-left:10px solid #f28500}.mw-parser-output .ambox-style{border-left:10px solid #fc3}.mw-parser-output .ambox-move{border-left:10px solid #9932cc}.mw-parser-output .ambox-protection{border-left:10px solid #a2a9b1}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-text{border:none;padding:0.25em 0.5em;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image{border:none;padding:2px 0 2px 0.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-imageright{border:none;padding:2px 0.5em 2px 0;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-empty-cell{border:none;padding:0;width:1px}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image-div{width:52px}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .ambox{margin:0 10%}}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .ambox{display:none!important}}</style><table class="box-Unreferenced_section plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Unreferenced" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section does not <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">cite</a> any <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">sources</a>. 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(July 2024) (<a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a>)</div></td></tr></tbody></table> To date, Firefly is the only organization to develop an orbital-class rocket engine utilizing the <a href="/wiki/Combustion_tap-off_cycle" title="Combustion tap-off cycle">combustion tap-off cycle</a>, and the only organization to develop a tap-off cycle engine using <a href="/wiki/RP-1" title="RP-1">RP-1</a> (highly refined kerosene) and <a href="/wiki/Liquid_oxygen" title="Liquid oxygen">liquid oxygen</a>, also known as a <a href="/wiki/Kerolox" class="mw-redirect" title="Kerolox">kerolox</a> engine. This engine type eliminates traditional gas generators and instead opts to "tap off" the main combustion chamber, utilizing the high heat and pressure within it to drive the pumps. This provides a slight increase in <a href="/wiki/Specific_impulse" title="Specific impulse">specific impulse</a> and results in a dramatically simpler and lighter engine, in exchange for increased engineering complexity and requiring more exotic materials in order to handle the high heat and pressure. The startup sequence is also more challenging. As a result of these challenges, tap-off has been largely ignored, with the only other engines using it being the <a href="/wiki/Rocketdyne_J-2" title="Rocketdyne J-2">Rocketdyne J-2S</a> and <a href="/wiki/BE-3#BE-3PM" title="BE-3">Blue Origin BE-3PM</a>, which are both <a href="/wiki/Hydrolox" class="mw-redirect" title="Hydrolox">hydrolox</a> engines (fueled by <a href="/wiki/Liquid_hydrogen" title="Liquid hydrogen">liquid hydrogen</a>). Firefly designed both Reaver and Lightning in close cooperation with Firefly Aerospace Ukraine which had status of Ukrainian subsidiary of Firefly. Firefly Aerospace Ukraine hadn't any relations to other Ukrainian aerospace companies like Yuzhnoye and Yuzhmash. However Yuzhmash was involved in production of some engine components. There were plans to use Yuzhmash for mass production of Firefly engines but these plans were cancelled. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Reaver">Reaver</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Firefly_Aerospace&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Reaver" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> Reaver is an expendable rocket engine designed for use on Firefly's Alpha rocket. It produces 184 kilonewtons (41,000 lbf) of thrust and a specific impulse of 295.6 seconds (2.899 km/s). It is powered by RP-1 and liquid oxygen as its fuel and oxidizer, respectively. Reaver is fixed-throttle, meaning it runs at full power from ignition to first stage shutdown (eschewing the typical throttle-down performed by many vehicles at <a href="/wiki/Max-Q" class="mw-redirect" title="Max-Q">Max-Q</a> to reduce aerodynamic loads) and is ignited with the <a href="/wiki/Hypergolic_propellant#Common" title="Hypergolic propellant">pyrophoric combination</a> <a href="/wiki/Triethylaluminium" title="Triethylaluminium">TEA</a>-<a href="/wiki/Triethylborane" title="Triethylborane">TEB</a> (also used on the <a href="/wiki/SpaceX_Merlin" title="SpaceX Merlin">SpaceX Merlin</a> and <a href="/wiki/Rocketdyne_F-1" title="Rocketdyne F-1">Rocketdyne F-1</a>). It utilizes a pintle-type injector. In 2021, <a href="/wiki/The_Verge" title="The Verge">The Verge</a> reported that <a href="/wiki/Astra_Space" class="mw-redirect" title="Astra Space">Astra Space</a> had purchased up to 50 modified Reaver engines and a technology transfer to license-build their own version of Reaver in-house for their Rocket 4 vehicle.<a href="#cite_note-68">[68]</a> Astra refers to this engine as Chiron. It is largely the same as Reaver, but Firefly implemented a two-axis hydraulic gimbal and a modified startup sequence to meet Astra's demands, as part of Firefly's space propulsion program.<a href="#cite_note-69">[69]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Lightning">Lightning</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Firefly_Aerospace&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Lightning" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> Lightning is a vacuum-optimized engine designed for use on the upper stage of Firefly's Alpha rocket. Lightning produces 70.1 kilonewtons (15,800 lbf) of thrust and a specific impulse of 322 seconds (3.16 km/s). Like Reaver, Lightning uses RP-1 and LOX as its propellants as well as the same combustion tap-off cycle. It is also re-lightable for missions requiring multiple upper stage burns. It uses Firefly's patented "Crossfire" injector design. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Miranda">Miranda</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Firefly_Aerospace&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Miranda" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> Miranda is a liquid-fueled rocket engine currently being developed to power the company’s <a href="/wiki/Firefly_Aerospace_MLV" class="mw-redirect" title="Firefly Aerospace MLV">MLV</a> (Medium Launch Vehicle). The Miranda will also be used on the <a href="/wiki/Antares_(rocket)" title="Antares (rocket)">Antares 330</a> rocket developed by <a href="/wiki/Northrop_Grumman" title="Northrop Grumman">Northrop Grumman</a>.<a href="#cite_note-70">[70]</a> The Antares previously used a Ukrainian-built first stage with the Russian-built <a href="/wiki/RD-191" title="RD-191">RD-181</a> engine and production ceased after the <a href="/wiki/Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine" title="Russian invasion of Ukraine">Russian invasion of Ukraine</a>.<a href="#cite_note-71">[71]</a> Firefly will also assemble the entire first stage for the Antares 330.<a href="#cite_note-Clark_2024-72">[72]</a> Like Firefly's previous engine's, the Miranda will use RP-1 and LOX in a <a href="/wiki/Combustion_tap-off_cycle" title="Combustion tap-off cycle">combustion tap-off cycle</a>. It is expected to produce 1,023 kilonewtons (230,000 lbf) of thrust and a specific impulse of 305 seconds (2.99 km/s) in vacuum.<a href="#cite_note-Miranda_MLV_specs-73">[73]</a><a href="#cite_note-Antares_330_announcement-74">[74]</a> Development began in 2022, and in 2024 Firefly reported substantial progress on testing the engine, with 20 test fires completed. As of June 2024, the Miranda engine had entered production.<a href="#cite_note-Clark_2024-72">[72]</a> To support production of the Miranda engine, the MLV and the first-stage for the Antares 300, Firefly expanded its <a href="/wiki/Briggs,_Texas" title="Briggs, Texas">Briggs, Texas</a> facility from 92,000 to 207,000 square feet (8,500 to 19,200 m2).<a href="#cite_note-75">[75]</a> Firefly said that it has designed the Miranda from its inception for <a href="/wiki/Reusable_launch_vehicle" title="Reusable launch vehicle">reusability</a>. The company plans to restart the engine multiple times as the rocket performs a <a href="/wiki/Return-to-launch-site" class="mw-redirect" title="Return-to-launch-site">return-to-launch-site</a> maneuver for a <a href="/wiki/Propulsive_landing" class="mw-redirect" title="Propulsive landing">propulsive landing</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Clark_2024-72">[72]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Vira">Vira</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Firefly_Aerospace&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Vira" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> Vira (formerly known as "Miranda Vacuum," "Viranda," and "Lightning 2") is a vacuum-optimized version of Miranda designed for the upper stage of Firefly's MLV vehicle. Like the Miranda, the engine will be fueled by RP-1 and LOX. It is expected to produce 890 kilonewtons (200,000 lbf) of thrust and a specific impulse of 328 seconds (3.22 km/s) in vacuum. It is relightable for missions requiring multiple upper stage burns.<a href="#cite_note-MLV1-53">[53]</a><a href="#cite_note-Antares_330_testing-52">[52]</a> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(5)"><h2 id="Elytra">Elytra</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Firefly_Aerospace&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Elytra" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-5 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-5"> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-Primary_sources plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Primary_sources" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section relies excessively on <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">references</a> to <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research#Primary,_secondary_and_tertiary_sources" title="Wikipedia:No original research">primary sources</a>. Please improve this section by adding <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research#Primary,_secondary_and_tertiary_sources" title="Wikipedia:No original research">secondary or tertiary sources</a>. (July 2024) (<a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a>)</div></td></tr></tbody></table> Firefly is developing Elytra, a lineup of <a href="/wiki/Orbital_transfer_vehicle" class="mw-redirect" title="Orbital transfer vehicle">orbital transfer vehicles</a> designed to move payloads and satellites from one orbit to another within LEO, GEO, and cislunar space. Elytra would allow smaller rockets (such as Firefly's own Alpha) to deliver larger payloads to more difficult orbits, and enable satellite relocation, servicing, mission extension, and deorbiting. Elytra is planned to be produced in three versions: Elytra Dawn (the smallest, intended for LEO operations), Elytra Dusk (intended for LEO-to-geostationary transfers), and Elytra Dark (the most capable, intended for long-duration transfers to cislunar space and beyond). Elytra Dark will propel Blue Ghost Mission 2 to lunar orbit and serve as an orbiter, as well as deploy ESA's Lunar Pathfinder payload.<a href="#cite_note-Elytra1-76">[76]</a> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(6)"><h2 id="Production">Production</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Firefly_Aerospace&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Production" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-6 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-6"> Firefly headquarters and factory are located in <a href="/wiki/Cedar_Park,_Texas" title="Cedar Park, Texas">Cedar Park, Texas</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Fox_2019-77">[77]</a> The company has access to about 50,000 ft2 of manufacturing facilities for building composite and metallic components in-house.<a href="#cite_note-:3-21">[21]</a> Firefly will 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