Firefly Alpha's debut test flight, carrying the DREAM payload of educational mementos and small satellites, lifted off from Vandenberg but lost control in transonic flight after one of its four first-stage engines shut down seconds after liftoff, triggering flight termination.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 1st
- of 7 Firefly Alpha flights
- Date and time
- 3 September 2021, 01:59 UTC
- Rocket
- Firefly Alpha
- Builder
- Firefly
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 2W, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Test Flight
- Launches in 2021
- 86th of 146