Update to ET at 12:15 AM on 15 March: Jugnu has discontinued a liftoff attempt on 15 March due to one. Release with launch rangeNo new target date has been announced.
The firefly aerospace will launch its alpha rocket for the sixth time on Saturday morning (March 15), and you can watch action live.
Alpha is scheduled to lift from California’s Wandenberg Space Force Base on Saturday during a 52 -minute window that opens at EDT (1325 gmt; 6:25 AM local California time) at 9:25 am.
Jugnu must have streamted the liftoff in collaboration with Nasaspasflight; Coverage will begin 30 minutes before the launch. Space.com will also take the feed, if the firefly and nasaspaceflight provides it.
Saturday’s mission, which Jugnu, called “Sandesh in A Boster”, will send LM 400 Satellite Technology to Locheed Martin to the performance. This will be the first launch of up to 25 to conduct the fire for the aerospace giants in the next five years under an agreement. Announced last year,
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“LM 400 tech demo was specially designed to display the company’s path-fasting efforts for its LM 400 mid-signs, multi-miracle satellite bus, and to demonstrate the operating capabilities of space vehicle in the classroom for potential customers,” Firefly has written in one. Mission details,
“As a platform, Lockheed Martin’s LM400 is the company’s most flexible satellite bus, capable of serving military, commercial or civil customers,” Jugnu said. “This can be adapted to host a variety of missions – including remote sensing, communication, imaging and radar – and work in any classroom.”
“Message in a booster” will be the sixth flight to two-phase, 96.7-Foot-Lamba (29.6 m) Alpha, capable of sending 2,270 pounds (1,030 kg) payload to Leo.
The rocket faced partial failure during its fourth flight in December 2023, deploying its payload – an electronically stereble antenna developed by Lockheed Martin – in the wrong classroom. But Alpha bounced back to Flight 5 last June, with eight cubesats to Leo.
Jugnu has recently been in a lot of news, and not due to alpha: On March 2, the company’s Blue Ghost Moon Lander pulled another soft lunar touchdown by a private vehicle.
Blue Ghosts and its 10 NASA science instruments are still becoming strong on the lunar surface. The solar-operated lander is expected to remain silent on or around March 16, when the sun climbs its landing site in the northern hemisphere near the moon.
