
Firefly Aerospace said on Friday that its Alpha rocket will launch another U.S. Space Force Tactically Responsive Space (TacRS) mission--VICTUS SOL--under a nearly $22 million U.S. Space Force contract. For the VICTUS NOX TacRS mission in September, 2023, Firefly completed the final launch preparations in a 24-hour period after the Space Force called up the mission, and launched a Millennium Space Systems satellite on an Alpha rocket within 27 hours of the launch order (Defense Daily, Sept. 26, 2023). Firefly…