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Part of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative, Firefly’s Blue Ghost lander will deliver 10 technology payloads to the moon.

All-composite Alpha FLTA002 rocket launches and reaches orbit from U.S. soil on only its second attempt, completing all important technical milestones including a two-burn maneuver.

Composite Builders to supply carbon fiber components for use on Firefly Aerospace launch vehicles.

RUAG Space to supply payload separation systems for Firefly Aerospace launch vehicles.

The composites-intensive Alpha launch vehicle will be used in NASA missions to deliver payloads such as CubeSats.

Since 2019 the space sector has been on a rapid upward trajectory. This year’s Space Symposium delivered that same optimism, celebrating the community’s continued proliferation, even as political and financial uncertainty raise new questions.

On Sept. 2, the all-composite launch vehicle achieved liftoff and about 2.5 minutes of flight prior to an anomaly resulting in loss of the vehicle.

Negotiating to supply components, such as composite overwrapped pressure vessels (COPV), to external customers, as part of full product line and new space marketplace.

Drone technology combined with active thermography reported to offers faster, cheaper and more in-depth inspection of composites used in wind turbine blades and aircraft wings.

Markforged, Fiberline Composites, Firefly Aerospace, Inhance Technologies, Exel Composites and Lockheed Martin announce new position appointments in the composites industry.