Firefly Alpha's seventh flight, 'Stairway to Seven,' returned the rocket to service after a nearly 10-month stand-down, reaching orbit from Vandenberg with a technology demonstrator payload for Lockheed Martin and performing a second-stage engine relight while validating Alpha Block 2 upgrades.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1 T (est.)
- Flight
- 7th
- of 7 Firefly Alpha flights
- Date and time
- 12 March 2026, 00:50 UTC
- Rocket
- Firefly Alpha
- Builder
- Firefly
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 2W, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Test Flight
- International designator
- 2026-046
- Launches in 2026
- 50th of 243
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