Marotta and Markusic
Firefly CEO Tom Markusic (right) took delivery of Marotta Controls' 20,000th CoRe Flow Controls valve from its CEO, Patrick Marotta, during a ceremony at the 36th Space Symposium Aug. 24.

Firefly Aerospace is ready to make its first orbital launch attempt next week as the company balances a transition to operations with plans to develop new rockets and spacecraft.

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Jeff Foust has more than a decade of experience writing about space policy, entrepreneurial ventures and regulatory affairs. In 2001, he established spacetoday.net to aggregate and summarize the day's space-related news stories. In 2003, he started The...