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About Featured Expert: Firefly Aerospace

June 2026June 26, 2026 Molly Bakewell Chamberlin

About Featured Expert: Firefly Aerospace Firefly Aerospace develops launch vehicles, lunar landers and orbital spacecraft for government, commercial and civil space missions. Its work spans launch, payload delivery, lunar surface operations, in-space transportation, communications and imaging, bringing several parts of the space transportation chain together within one organization. The company’s Alpha rocket supports dedicated, rideshare […]

Rendering of Firefly Elytra Dawn vehicle using LLNL telescope for space domain awareness, appearing in an article on Aerospace Technology Monthly

LLNL Selected by DoD DIU to Build Pathfinder Space Telescope

August 2025August 10, 2025 Molly Bakewell Chamberlin

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has been selected by the U.S. Department of Defense’s Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) to deliver a new monolithic telescope for a responsive space mission scheduled to launch as early as 2027.