Firefly Aerospace and
Adaptive Launch Solutions Sign Multi-Launch
Agreement
December 23, 2020
Firefly Aerospace, Inc.,
and Adaptive Launch Solutions (ALS), announced
they have signed a multi-year Launch Services
Agreement (LSA) which includes four Alpha
launches beginning in 2021.
“Small launch provides
small satellite owners right sized, right priced
access to space meeting their program and
business goals,” said Phil Smith, CEO of ALS.
“Our agreement with Firefly Aerospace will
provide the flexibility and responsiveness
demanded by government operators and commercial
owners. Under the agreement, ALS is the launch
service provider for Alpha Flights 2 and 3,
planned for launch in 2021. These two missions
offer our customers the earliest commercial
launch opportunities on Firefly Alpha. ALS
brings to our Firefly partnership decades of
launch integration experience, most recently
utilized on the United States Space Force (USSF)
Launch Manifest Systems Integrator (LMSI)
program. The LMSI program team delivers
capabilities and integration approaches that
establish U.S. government enterprise-wide
capability for small satellite delivery to
space.”
“Firefly is very pleased to
welcome ALS as a customer and partner for
missions in 2021 and beyond,” said Dr. Tom
Markusic, Firefly CEO. “In addition to providing
launch services to ALS, Firefly plans to
leverage ALS’ unique primary and secondary
payload integration capability, processing
experience and proprietary hardware for current
and future launch campaigns.”
Firefly is preparing for
the first launch of the Alpha vehicle in early
2021. Acceptance testing of both Stage 1 and
Stage 2 for Flight 1 have been completed, and
Firefly’s Vandenberg Air Force Base Space Launch
Complex 2 launch site is nearing completion and
activation.
“Firefly’s agreement with
ALS will allow us to pursue strategic
opportunities to support Firefly on both our
Western and Eastern ranges,” added Firefly’s
Chief Revenue Officer Bradley Schneider.
“Firefly has now nearly filled our 2021 launch
manifest and is focused on finalizing our 2022
flight opportunities. The demand for access to
Low Earth Orbit is rapidly expanding, and
Firefly will provide the most dependable and
economical small launch vehicles in the
industry.”