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Firefly Aerospace

Firefly Alpha | FLTA006 (Message in a Booster)

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Firefly Alpha | FLTA006 (Message in a Booster)

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Mission brief

The flight at a glance.

Sixth flight of the Firefly Alpha small satellite launcher, launching the demonstration mission for Lockheed Martin's new LM400 satellite bus, which will carry a communications payload. The satellite bus is customizable to support different missions, including remote sensing, communications, imagery and radar Earth observations. It can also support different kinds of orbits and launch configurations.

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Published flight sequence

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Planned timings relative to the target. These steps do not indicate live progress.

  1. T−00:00:02

    Ignition

  2. T+00:00:00

    Liftoff

  3. T+00:00:56

    Supersonic

  4. T+00:01:06

    Max-Q

  5. T+00:02:33

    MECO

  6. T+00:02:37

    Stage 2 Separation

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  1. T+00:02:39

    SES

  2. T+00:02:58

    Fairing Separation

  3. T+00:08:28

    SECO

  4. T+00:12:42

    Payload Separation