Liftoff had been scheduled for 9:25 a.m. ET on Saturday (March 15), but issues at the launch site have pushed things back.
A series of launches is set at Vandenberg Space Force Base, starting Thursday night with the NROL-57 mission from Space ...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch late Friday night also will include a landing at Vandenberg Space Force Base but another firm's Saturday morning mission ...
The previous landing in February 2024, pulled off by Houston-based space company Intuitive Machines, helped set the stage ... separation from the Falcon 9 rocket as Earth hovers far below. Firefly ...
Two tenths of a second after first stage separation, the Vikas engine powering the rocket’s second stage ignited. Vikas is a license-built derivative of the French Viking engine that powered ...
Firefly Aerospace ... flight for the two-stage, 96.7-foot-tall (29.6 meters) Alpha, which is capable of sending 2,270 pounds (1,030 kilograms) of payload to LEO. The rocket suffered a partial ...