Firefly's Alpha launched the U.S. Space Force VICTUS NOX tactically responsive space mission from Vandenberg, deploying a Millennium Space Systems satellite to low Earth orbit just 27 hours after receiving the launch order, a record for responsive launch.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 100 kg (est.)
- Flight
- 3rd
- of 7 Firefly Alpha flights
- Date and time
- 15 September 2023, 02:28 UTC
- Rocket
- Firefly Alpha
- Builder
- Firefly
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 2W, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 2023-142
- Launches in 2023
- 150th of 223
See it in orbit
Space Atlas shows the satellites and rocket stages from this launch in 3D.
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