Firefly Alpha's fourth flight carried a Lockheed Martin electronically steerable antenna demonstrator from Vandenberg, but a guidance-software error prevented the upper stage from reaching its target orbit, leaving the payload in a lower-than-planned orbit — a partial failure.
- Outcome
- Partial
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 250 kg (est.)
- Flight
- 4th
- of 7 Firefly Alpha flights
- Date and time
- 22 December 2023, 17:32 UTC
- Rocket
- Firefly Alpha
- Builder
- Firefly
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 2W, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Technology
- International designator
- 2023-202
- Launches in 2023
- 213th of 223
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