Eight CubeSats Lift Off for NASA on Firefly Aerospace Rocket.

Eight CubeSats Lift Off for NASA on Firefly Aerospace Rocket!

Firefly Aerospace launches NASA-sponsored cubesats TOKYO — Firefly Aerospace placed eight cubesats into orbit on a mission funded by NASA on the first flight of the company’s Alpha rocket since an upper stage malfunction more than half a year ago. The Alpha rocket lifted off from a foggy Vandenberg Space Force Base in California at 12:04 a.m. Eastern July 4. A launch attempt July 2 was scrubbed after a ground equipment issue halted the countdown just before ignition of…

Eight CubeSats Lift Off for NASA on Firefly Aerospace Rocket! Space NASA

Eight CubeSats Lift Off for NASA on Firefly Aerospace Rocket!