Today 2025 May3 (Sat) 22:19 Etc/GMT-9

2025/06/01~2025/06/02

(NET) Alpha • TacSat

A Firefly Aerospace Alpha rocket will launch on a flight designated FLTA007, to send the TacSat demonstrator for Lockheed Martin into space. TacSat is an intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance spacecraft with a mission to prove specialized sensing and communications capabilities on orbit. TacSat is a compact spacecraft about the size of a mini-fridge and built on a Terran Orbital Zuma bus. The satellite will participate in exercises next year that highlight cross-domain kill-web connectivity, enabling timely execution of tactical space missions. The mission is named "?". - Delayed from August, October and November.

📍 Vandenberg AFB Space Launch Complex 2, Tangair Rd, Lompoc, CA 93437, USA