Firefly Alpha's second test flight, "To The Black," reached orbit for the first time from Vandenberg, deploying small satellites including NASA's TechEdSat-15 and Teachers in Space's Serenity, though a lower-than-planned orbit caused most payloads to reenter within days.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 19 kg
- Flight
- 2nd
- of 7 Firefly Alpha flights
- Date and time
- 1 October 2022, 07:01 UTC
- Rocket
- Firefly Alpha
- Builder
- Firefly
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 2W, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Test Flight
- International designator
- 2022-122
- Launches in 2022
- 126th of 186
See it in orbit
Space Atlas shows the satellites and rocket stages from this launch in 3D.
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