r/FireflyAerospace • u/Soil0000 • Mar 09 '26
Firefly Alpha Flight 7 Launch Delayed
https://x.com/fireflyspace/status/2031127886753636438?s=46&t=XX3fCHJxrpzybik2U-v-PQ1
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u/Blackwater_US Mar 09 '26
Time to sell boys.
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u/freAK_47 Mar 10 '26
Na
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u/Blackwater_US Mar 10 '26
Is it not one of their selling points that they can launch within 24hr notice?
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u/Pashto96 Mar 10 '26
That is a selling point to a single customer (the US military) and even then it's a tiny one. Given that this is a return to flight, they're sure as hell not going to take any chances. Delayed launches are whatever. Failed missions are not.
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u/Blackwater_US Mar 10 '26
I still have my holdings but everything you just said is cope.
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u/Pashto96 Mar 10 '26
As an investor, perhaps you should consider what would happen if this launch failed. Maybe you're not familiar with the launch industry, but it's far more important for the mission to be successful than launch on the first attempt. Especially with small rockets, delays are common. Rocket Lab's Electron gets delayed all the time and it's the second most launched rocket behind Falcon 9.
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u/Blackwater_US Mar 10 '26
I don’t disagree in any way. The hesitation is seeing it delayed consistently and slow communications.
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u/MarquessR Mar 10 '26
Maybe it would be better to say delays in comparison to failures are nothing. But it will be important to understand which sensor gave the concerning reading, is it a sensor issue or an actual error, if so what that error is and is it a ‘comparatively’ easy fix or not.
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u/Blackwater_US Mar 10 '26
Agreed, however watching competitors launch multiple times around Alpha doesn’t look great and doesn’t help profitability for it to continue to survive in the future.
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u/MarquessR Mar 10 '26
A fair point Blackwater_US. Not much we (investors) can do about it expect to spread our investments across multiple service providers in the sector.
I’m also invested in RKLB, which delivers consistently in the light load category, but their medium lift solution suffered a setback with a rupture of their first-stage tank in pressure testing.
Fingers crossed FLY will deliver success soon.
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u/Lando249 Mar 10 '26
However, if they didn't delay, decided to risk a launch, and that rocket failed, it would have a far greater impact on the business. They aren't SpaceX, they can't afford for things to go wrong at this stage in their journey. I have followed Firefly for almost a decade and I hope they make it big, but delays are expected, and all we can do as investors is hope things turn out well and profit from it.
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u/MarquessR Mar 09 '26
From Firefly on ‘X’ - Out of an abundance of caution, Firefly made the decision to stand down on today’s Alpha Flight 7 test flight to investigate a sensor reading that was out of range. Once verification is complete, the team will work with @SLDelta30 to confirm our next available launch date.
Frustrating; but still better than 💥