Firefly Aerospace has signed a contract with Spaceflight to be the primary customer for a rideshare mission on Firefly’s Alpha small launch vehicle in 2021.

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Firefly Aerospace, the smallsat launch startup backed by serial entrepreneur Max Polyakov’s Noosphere Ventures, is shrugging off a recent test stand fire and pandemic-related disruption to carry out its first launch this year. As analysts forecast a major cull of newspace startups in the economic downturn, Firefly CEO Tom Markusic speaks to Connectivity Business about how it is not only tackling these pressures but expanding its offering, with spacecraft that will see it also compete with heavier lift launchers...