🚀 US-Ukrainian company Firefly Aerospace is planning to launch Alpha this October from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Alpha is an advanced two-stage rocket for small satellites.
🛰 Alpha will be targeted at small satellites especially, with Firefly doing its best to deliver them into orbit for a cost of about $15 million per mission, reports Space.com.
📍 The company has its R&D center located in Ukrainian city Dnipro, which has been known as a Ukrainian heart of the aerospace industry with a number of prominent enterprises with a full cycle of design, production and operation of advanced civil, military and cargo aircraft, as well as supplying space technology.