Firefly Aerospace Awarded DoD Contract for Responsive On-Orbit Mission with Elytra Spacecraft

Firefly Aerospace Awarded DoD Contract for Responsive On-Orbit Mission with Elytra Spacecraft

CEDAR PARK, Texas, April 07, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Firefly Aerospace, the leader in end-to-end responsive space services, today announced it was awarded a contract to perform a responsive on-orbit mission with its Elytra spacecraft in support of the U.S.…

Firefly Aerospace awarded DoD contract for responsive on-orbit mission with Elytra spacecraft

Firefly Aerospace awarded DoD contract for responsive on-orbit mission with Elytra spacecraft

DoD Taps Firefly For Responsive LEO Mission

Firefly will conduct a responsive space mission for DoD as early as 2027, which will include capabilities such as conducting space domain operations in LEO. The Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) contracted the mission as part of their Sinequone project. Firefly’s Elytra spacecraft will perform tasks for DIU in-orbit and on demand, while carrying multiple government cameras and a navigation unit. Elytra will fly with the same engine type that—in the …

Firefly Aerospace awarded DoD contract for responsive on-orbit mission with Elytra spacecraft – SatNews

Firefly Aerospace has been awarded a contract to perform a responsive on-orbit mission with the company’s Elytra spacecraft in support of the U.S. Department of Defense’s (DoD) Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) Sinequone Project. Sinequone will demonstrate the commercial launch and delivery of payloads or space vehicles (SVs) to a predetermined orbit, or orbits in xGEO. DIU selected Firefly Aerospace under the Sinequone effort to deliver three to s…