Firefly On Track For 2019 first flight

LOS ANGELES—Launch vehicle developer Firefly Aerospace is targeting an eventual operational tempo of one mission every two weeks as it ramps up tests of the Lightning upper-stage and Reaver first-stage engines that will power the company’s Alpha rocket on its first flight in 2019. Firefly is aiming...

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