Alpha Flight 2
The second Alpha rocket by Firefly Aerospace is in a hangar at Vandenberg Space Force Base awaiting launch in late August or early September.

Firefly Aerospace is preparing for the second launch of its Alpha rocket in late August or early September, hoping that a successful mission can enable a “step change” in activity for the company.

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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...