The Space Force mission Victus Nox calls for flying a Millennium Space Systems-built satellite on Firefly Aerospace’s Alpha rocket — on remarkably short notice.
Birchenough and the Tactically Responsive Space, or TacRS, program aim to work with spacecraft and rocket builders to create"the capability to quickly respond to on-orbit needs" on"very short timelines."
"This whole mission is based off what a real-world situation would be like, and making sure that this operational demo is as close to that as we can possibly get," she said.The Alpha rocket for the Space Force's Victus Nox mission stands on the launchpad at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. Space Force selected Firefly and Millennium for the Victus Nox contract in October, setting off a chain of events starting with the build phase. Firefly's contract for the mission is worth $17.6 million, while Millennium's contract value was not disclosed.
Birchenough said Space Safari sees this program as a"crawl-walk-run approach," with initial planning for the next mission underway.Firefly originally planned to fly a NASA mission on its third Alpha rocket launch, after the company. And then Space Safari came knocking, and Weber said his company had enough"flexibility" on the timing of the NASA mission to swap it out for Victus Nox.
Weber said the company currently has customer commitments for seven more flights on Alpha after Victus Nox.According to Millennium CEO Jason Kim, the Space Safari team came to the company's production line and said,"Hey, I want one of those spacecraft."
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