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Firefly Aerospace
Firefly Alpha | FLTA005 (Noise of Summer)
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Mission brief
The flight at a glance.
Fifth flight of the Firefly Alpha small sat launcher, carrying eight cubesats for NASA's ELaNa 43 (Educational Launch of a Nanosatellite) mission.
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Planned timings relative to the target. These steps do not indicate live progress.
- T−18:00:00
Payload Processing End
- T−17:30:00
Payload Segment Preparation
- T−17:00:00
Payload Segment Transport
- T−15:00:00
Payload Segment Mating
- T−09:00:00
Pad Configuration
- T−07:30:00
Launcher Vertical
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- T−05:00:00
Propulsion Checkouts
- T−04:00:00
Prop Load
- T−01:05:00
LOX Topping
- T−00:20:00
Ready Poll
- T−00:15:00
Terminal Count
- T−00:05:00
Strongback Retract
- T−00:02:00
GO for Launch
- T−00:00:02
Ignition
- T+00:00:00
Liftoff
- T+00:00:54
Supersonic
- T+00:01:05
Max-Q
- T+00:02:30
MECO
- T+00:02:33
Stage 2 Separation
- T+00:02:35
SES
- T+00:02:45
Fairing Separation
- T+00:08:10
SECO
- T+00:44:33
Payload Deployment Sequence Start
- T+00:55:13
Payload Deployment Sequence End