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Astro Hawk (Ian Kluft) 🚀🛰️

"Firefly’s rocket suffers one of the strangest launch failures we’ve ever seen" by @arstechnica - After stage separation, an apparent collision between 1st & 2nd stage, likely during explosion of the 1st stage. 2nd stage rocket nozzle was damaged leaving it without enough thrust to reach orbit. Lockheed satellite lost. arstechnica.com/science/2025/0 #Firefly #Alpha #rocketry #NewSpace #business

Ars Technica · Firefly’s rocket suffers one of the strangest launch failures we’ve ever seenBy Stephen Clark
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Daniel Fischer

Today's #Firefly Alpha launch was a total failure. "Initial indications showed Alpha's upper stage reached 320 km in altitude," the company now says in x.com/Firefly_Space/status/191: "However, upon further assessment, the team learned the upper stage did not reach orbital velocity, and the stage and payload have now safely impacted the Pacific Ocean in a cleared zone north of Antarctica."

X (formerly Twitter)Firefly Aerospace (@Firefly_Space) on XAlpha FLTA006 update: Initial indications showed Alpha's upper stage reached 320 km in altitude. However, upon further assessment, the team learned the upper stage did not reach orbital velocity, and the stage and payload have now safely impacted the Pacific Ocean in a cleared
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Daniel Fischer

Oops, the #Firefly Alpha launch with a test satellite didn't go well (as had already been speculated about in bsky.app/profile/cosmicpenguin by an independent observer): "there was a mishap during first stage separation for the FLTA006 mission that impacted the Stage 2 Lightning engine nozzle, putting the vehicle in a lower than planned orbit," says Firefly in x.com/Firefly_Space/status/191 now (the launch webcast, outsourced to a space fan organisation, hadn't mentioned any anomalies).

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Strypey

"And don't you ever stand for that sort of thing. Someone ever tries to kill you, you try to kill'em right back.

Look, wife or no, you are no one's property to be tossed aside. You got the right, same as anyone, to live and try to kill people. I mean ... you know ... people that are ...

... That's a ... that's a dumb planet."

Mal Reynolds, #Firefly, s01e06

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