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Watch Firefly Aerospace Try to Reach Orbit for 1st Time Sunday

posted by hubie on Sunday September 11 2022, @07:00PM   Printer-friendly
from the more-and-more-rockets dept.

upstart writes:

Sunday evening's launch will be the second orbital flight attempt for Firefly's Alpha rocket:

Firefly Aerospace will take another crack at reaching orbit on Sunday (Sept. 11), and you can watch it live.

The Texas-based company plans to launch its Alpha rocket on a test mission from California's Vandenberg Space Force Base on Sunday (Sept. 11) at 6 p.m. EDT (3 p.m. local California time; 2200 GMT). You can watch the liftoff via Firefly and its livestream partner, EverydayAstronaut.com ; Space.com will carry that webcast as well, if possible.

This will be Alpha's second attempt to make it to orbit. The first try, which launched from Vandenberg on Sept. 2, 2021, ended in a dramatic fireball after the 95-foot-tall (29 meters) rocket suffered a major anomaly.

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Press kit for this launch

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by hubie on Sunday September 11 2022, @11:10PM (1 child)

    by hubie (1068) Subscriber Badge on Sunday September 11 2022, @11:10PM (#1271250) Journal

    They are going to go for 7pm PT (10pm ET; 0200 GMT).

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by takyon on Monday September 12 2022, @12:15AM

    by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Monday September 12 2022, @12:15AM (#1271256) Journal

    Got scrubbed for today as soon as I loaded the livestream.

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