Uploaded April 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Alpha FLTA006 is the second mission Firefly is launching for Lockheed Martin and the first of Firefly’s multi-launch agreement with Lockheed Martin that includes up to 25 missions over the next five years. This mission will launch Lockheed Martin’s LM 400 tech demo to prove out the risk-reduction and pathfinding efforts the company has done for its multi-mission satellite bus. Launching the mid-size satellite to low Earth orbit, FLTA006 will further validate Alpha’s robust performance to take customers directly to their preferred orbits as the only operational 1 metric ton rocket.
The Alpha FLTA006 Message In A Booster mission is prepared to launch no earlier than Tuesday, April 29, 2025. A 52-minute window begins at 6:37AM PDT. Message In A Booster will launch from Firefly’s SLC-2 complex at the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
For more details on the Alpha FLTA006 Message In A Booster mission and live stream, visit fireflyspace.com/missions/alpha-flta006
Firefly Aerospace is an end-to-end responsive space company with launch, lunar, and on-orbit services. Headquartered in central Texas, Firefly is a portfolio company of AE Industrial Partners (“AEI”) focused on delivering rapid, reliable, and affordable space access for government and commercial customers. Firefly’s small- to medium-lift launch vehicles, lunar landers, and orbital vehicles provide the space industry with a single source for missions from low Earth orbit to the surface of the Moon and beyond. For more information, visit www.fireflyspace.com.
Live stream production services for this launch are provided by NASASpaceflight.com, @NASASpaceflight.
Alpha FLTA006 is the second mission Firefly is launching for Lockheed Martin and the first of Firefly’s multi-launch agreement with Lockheed Martin that includes up to 25 missions over the next five years. This mission will launch Lockheed Martin’s LM 400 tech demo to prove out the risk-reduction and pathfinding efforts the company has done for its multi-mission satellite bus. Launching the mid-size satellite to low Earth orbit, FLTA006 will further validate Alpha’s robust performance to take customers directly to their preferred orbits as the only operational 1 metric ton rocket.
The Alpha FLTA006 Message In A Booster mission is prepared to launch no earlier than Tuesday, April 29, 2025. A 52-minute window begins at 6:37AM PDT. Message In A Booster will launch from Firefly’s SLC-2 complex at the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
For more details on the Alpha FLTA006 Message In A Booster mission and live stream, visit fireflyspace.com/missions/alpha-flta006
Firefly Aerospace is an end-to-end responsive space company with launch, lunar, and on-orbit services. Headquartered in central Texas, Firefly is a portfolio company of AE Industrial Partners (“AEI”) focused on delivering rapid, reliable, and affordable space access for government and commercial customers. Firefly’s small- to medium-lift launch vehicles, lunar landers, and orbital vehicles provide the space industry with a single source for missions from low Earth orbit to the surface of the Moon and beyond. For more information, visit www.fireflyspace.com.
Live stream production services for this launch are provided by NASASpaceflight.com, @NASASpaceflight.
