Firefly wins contract to transport NASA satellites that track tropical storms
Firefly Aerospace has secured a contract for a dedicated Alpha launch that will transport satellites for NASA’s Investigation of Convective Updrafts mission, which studies how and why tropical storms form.
The Firefly rocket will launch out of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility and will be the Texas company’s third Alpha launch for NASA. The company’s first successful Alpha launch happened last summer and the second is scheduled to take off from Vandenberg Space Force Base next year.