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Firefly Alpha Rocket Explodes

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Firefly's Alpha rocket fails in space, sends Lockheed satellite falling into ocean

With Tuesday's events, four of six Alpha flights since 2021 have failed. Firefly, which was able to achieve a breakthrough moon landing in March, is vying with a handful of simila

Firefly’s Alpha Rocket Crashes Into Pacific Ocean After Failing to Reach Orbit

A Firefly Aerospace rocket failed to deliver its payload to orbit on Tuesday, creating a cloud of debris in the sky before falling back down toward an ocean crash.

Ars Technica · 2d

Firefly’s rocket suffers one of the strangest launch failures we’ve ever seen

The Alpha rocket took off from Vandenberg Space Force Base about 140 miles northwest of Los Angeles at 6:37 am PDT (9:37 am EDT; 13:37 UTC), one day after Firefly called off a launch attempt due to a technical problem with ground support equipment.

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Firefly Aerospace's first stage explodes before satellite's deployment

A Firefly Aerospace rocket launched from California crashed into the Pacific Ocean north of Antarctica, failing to place into ...

‘Magical and mesmerizing’: New glow-in-the-dark firefly petunias available in Michigan

The firefly petunias were invented by Light Bio. A group of bioengineers spliced the petunia’s DNA with bioluminescent ...

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California rocket launch: Firefly to investigate 'mishap' during test for Lockheed Martin

A rocket launch from California's Vandenberg Space Force Base did not go to plan after the spacecraft experienced a midair ...

UPDATE: Firefly rocket lifts off from Vandenberg SFB, 'mishap' reported

After a nearly two-month delay, Firefly Aerospace has announced a new launch window for its “Message in a Booster” mission ...

FLYING Magazine1d

Firefly Alpha Rocket Grounded After In-Flight Anomaly

Launch provider says a nozzle extension on the upper engine was lost during stage separation, preventing the rocket from ...

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Firefly Alpha launches FLTA006 Message In A Booster...

Firefly Aerospace launched its Alpha rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, but the mission failed to reach ...

The Christian Post on MSN2d

Elders reject Firefly's findings in Michael Brown investigation, say he didn't engage in sexual abuse

A group of Christian leaders asked by the board of the North Carolina-based The Line of Fire Dr Brown Ministries, Inc, to ...

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Lockheed loses experimental satellite after Firefly launch mishap

The mishap caused the rocket to lose its engine nozzle extension, significantly reducing its thrust and making it unable to ...

“How can everything not be enough?”: ‘Firefly’ Isn’t ‘Mr. Robot’ and Nathan Fillion Probably Knew That a Long Time Ago

Nathan Fillion believed that the one-season run of Firefly was probably for the best, and we can't help but partly agree with ...

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