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Alpha rocket explosion was controlled – Firefly Aerospace
KYIV. Sept 3 (Interfax-Ukraine) – U.S.-registered aerospace equipment manufacturer Firefly Aerospace Inc., owned by Ukrainian businessman Maxym Polyakov, has reported that the flight of its Alpha rocket was aborted consistent with security protocols.
The explosion of the Alpha rocket of the Firefly Aerospace company was controlled, and the flight was terminated by the Space Launch Delta 30 team from the Vandenberg Space Force Base once a deviation from the trajectory was recorded, the company’s press service told Interfax.
The company noted that the launch of Firefly Aerospace’s Alpha rocket can be called successful.
The Firefly Alpha rocket did not explode spontaneously, instead, its flight was terminated from the Space Launch Delta 30 control center consistent with the flight safety protocol because of a flight anomaly, the company said.
According to the live broadcast of the rocket’s launch on YouTube, the launch window opened between 4:00 a.m. and 8:00 a.m. Kyiv Time. The rocket took off at 4:58 a.m. Kyiv Time, but the mission was aborted two minutes into the flight due to an unknown anomaly. The rocket exploded in midair.
Firefly Aerospace, formerly known as Firefly Space Systems, is a private U.S. company, which was founded in Texas in 2014 and specializes in developing new-generation light launch vehicles. In Ukraine’s Dnipro, Firefly Aerospace has its own research and development center and a workshop for the experimental production of small rocket units with subsequent laboratory testing.
