{"id":284606,"date":"2024-07-05T12:26:37","date_gmt":"2024-07-05T10:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/es\/?p=335486"},"modified":"2025-07-01T16:14:44","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T23:14:44","slug":"the-alpha-rocket-from-firefly-aerospace-puts-8-cubesats-into-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/the-alpha-rocket-from-firefly-aerospace-puts-8-cubesats-into-orbit\/","title":{"rendered":"The Alpha rocket from Firefly Aerospace puts 8 cubesats into orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Alpha<\/strong> rocket from Firefly Aerospace<\/strong> carried out its fifth launch in the early hours of Thursday, July 4th, and placed eight cubesats<\/strong> into orbit. These small satellites are mainly used in low Earth orbit for applications such as remote sensing and communications<\/strong>, although they are now also being used in interplanetary missions.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The mission, called “Noise of Summer”<\/strong>, took off from the Vandenberg base of the California Space Force at 06:04 CEST<\/strong>, after a two-day delay due to problems with the ground support equipment. “Noise of Summer” sent the eight cubesats on the Alpha, a 29-meter high rocket, selected through NASA’s Cubesat Launch Initiative, which seeks to facilitate access to space for satellites developed by educational institutions and non-profit organizations in the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The cubesats were created by teams from the University of Arizona, the University of Kansas, the University of Maine, the University of Washington, the organization Teachers in Space<\/strong>, and two NASA facilities: the Johnson Space Center in Houston and the Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley. It was planned for the eight cubesats to be deployed 55 minutes after launch, and one hour later, Firefly confirmed that seven had separated correctly<\/strong>, while they continued to verify the deployment of the University of Arizona’s satellite, CatSat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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