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DIU Taps Firefly Aerospace For Responsive On-Orbit Mission

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DIU Taps Firefly Aerospace For Responsive On-Orbit Mission
Image of Firefly Aerospace's Elytra Dawn spacecraft. Image: Firefly Aerospace

Firefly Aerospace on Monday said it has received a contract from the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) to supply its Elytra spacecraft for a 2027 mission in low Earth orbit (LEO) for responsive on-orbit tasks, including space domain awareness. The award follows a trade study contract Firefly received from DIU a year ago under the Sinequone project to rapidly launch Elytra to xGEO, which is beyond geosynchronous orbit (Defense Daily, March 22, 2024). Firefly said the Elytra mission to LEO is…

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