SSC Space, Firefly Set 2028 Target for First Orbital Launch From Sweden's Esrange

Firefly Aerospace and SSC Space Meet Next Critical Milestone for Orbital Launch from Esrange Space Center

With key infrastructure and agreements in place, the companies progress pad construction at Launch Complex 3C for Firefly’s Alpha rocket...

SSC Space, Firefly set 2028 target for first orbital launch from Sweden's Esrange

HELSINKI — SSC Space and Firefly have set a 2028 target for the first orbital launch from Esrange, with key infrastructure and regulatory pieces falling into place. The companies announced […] The post SSC Space, Firefly set 2028 target for first orbital launch from Sweden’s Esrange appeared first on SpaceNews.

Two hundred kilometers north of the Arctic Circle, the Esrange rocket range in northern Sweden has fired sounding rockets since the 1960s, and in 2028 it plans to launch Firefly's Alpha and put the first satellite into orbit from Swedish soil

At a rocket range 200 kilometers north of the Arctic Circle, where Sweden has fired sounding rockets and floated research balloons since the 1960s, crews are pouring concrete for something Esrange has never had: a pad that can send a payload all the way to orbit. SSC Space and Firefly Aerospace have set 2028 as the target for the first orbital flight of Firefly’s Alpha rocket from the Esrange Space Center — the first satellite launch to orbit fr…

SSC Space and Firefly Aerospace meet next critical milestone for orbital launch from Esrange Space Center

SSC Space and Firefly Aerospace meet next critical milestone for orbital launch from Esrange Space Center

Firefly Targets Swedish Launch in 2028 Under New Franchise Model

Firefly Aerospace ($FLY) announced today that it aims to launch its Alpha rocket from SSC Space’s Esrange Space Center in northern Sweden as early as 2028. The announcement is the result of years of back-and-forth between the US and Sweden: In 2024, SSC Space and Firefly signed an agreement to launch Alpha from Esrange, then targeting a first flight in 2026. In June 2025, the US and Sweden signed a Technology Safeguards Agreement, providing the…

Sweden's SSC Space, Firefly Aerospace, in a trans-Atlantic success story, set 2028 orbital flight from Sweden's Esrange

BALLYSEEDE, Ireland — Sweden’s SSC Space and US launch-service provider FIrefly Aerospace said they have concluded…