A couple of interesting tweets from Aria Alamalhodaei looks at TechCrunch:
Soooo…according to filings it looks like @Firefly_Space is planning two unannounced missions— one called ‘FANTM Ride’ and another called ‘Tantrum.’ Firefly declined to comment.
I learned this after publishing a story about how the company’s NASA launch was pushed to August — busy summer for Firefly
That story details upcoming USSF responsive launch and NASA VCLS demos. It all seems very ambitious given their track record but space entrepreneurs have never been short of that:
Firefly launched Alpha for the first time in September 2021. That launch ended in failure due to a premature shutdown of one of the first-stage engines. Thirteen months later, the company successfully reached orbit, though the payloads on board were inserted into a lower orbit than planned. As a result, those payloads reentered Earth’s atmosphere after a few days.