Firefly Aerospace launching 4th-ever mission today: Watch live
Firefly Aerospace launching 4th mission today: Watch live | Space Quiz! What is the name of the period about 100 million years after the Big Bang? | Watch Blue Origin launch 1st mission in 15 months today
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The company's Alpha rocket is scheduled to lift off from California's Vandenberg Space Force Base today during a 20-minute window that opens at 12:18 p.m. EST (1718 GMT; 9:18 a.m. local California time), kicking off a mission that Firefly calls "Fly the Lightning." You can watch the launch live via Firefly and its streaming partner, NASASpaceflight.com. Coverage will begin an hour before the window opens.
Blue Origin's New Shepard suborbital vehicle lifted off from the company's West Texas site on Tuesday around 11:44 a.m. EST (1644 GMT) after brief holds on launch day. (Blue Origin also tried to launch the mission on Monday (Dec. 18), but scrubbed the attempt due to a "ground system issue" at its Launch Site One pad.)
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