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Space

DIU Selects Companies For Multi-Orbit Logistics And Firefly For xGEO Missions

By Cal Biesecker

Friday, March 22nd, 2024

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DIU Selects Companies For Multi-Orbit Logistics And Firefly For xGEO Missions

Space Logistics, Northrop Grumman’s in-space servicing subsidiary, is providing a suite of in-space refueling technologies. Image taken from Defense Innovation Unit website.

The Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) last week said it is working with three companies to provide in-space logistics services between orbits to further Defense Department efforts for low-cost responsive access to orbits beyond low Earth orbit (LEO). Separately, DIU last week said it has selected Firefly Aerospace for its Sinequone effort, which calls for the company to deliver three to six space vehicles across two demonstration flights to support missions beyond Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (GEO), called xGEO. Firefly will first…

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