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Firefly Aerospace
Firefly Alpha | Stairway to Seven
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Mission brief
The flight at a glance.
Firefly Alpha's Flight 7 is a test flight and return-To-Flight for the launch vehicle after its April 2025 launch failure. It will test and validate key systems ahead of Firefly’s Block II configuration upgrade on Flight 8 that’s designed to enhance reliability and manufacturability across the vehicle. Flight 7 is the last flown in Alpha’s current configuration and will test multiple Block II subsystems, including the in-house avionics and thermal improvements, to gain flight heritage and validate lessons learned ahead of the full configuration upgrade on Flight 8. This launch also delivered a demonstrator payload for Lockheed Martin.
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Planned timings relative to the target. These steps do not indicate live progress.
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Ignition
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Liftoff
- T+00:00:55
Supersonic
- T+00:01:06
Max-Q
- T+00:02:32
MECO
- T+00:02:35
Stage 2 Separation
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- T+00:02:38
SES
- T+00:03:03
Fairing Separation
- T+00:08:02
SECO