Firefly to Test Launch NASA CubeSat; Thomas Markusic, Garrett Skrobot Comment
Firefly Space Systems has been awarded a $5.5 million contract to test launch NASA’s CubeSat into space in March 2018. Thomas Markusic, Firefly’s CEO, said Wednesday the company developed Firefly Alpha over the last 18 months. Firefly Alpha is designed to lift a 881-pound payload to a 248-mile equatorial orbit. Garrett Skrobot, lead for the educational launch of nanosatellites mission […] More