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07/01/2024 | News release | Distributed by Public on 07/01/2024 12:20

Launch Update for NASA’s ELaNa 43 CubeSats

Firefly Aerospace's Alpha rocket carrying eight CubeSats as part of NASA's CubeSat Launch Initiative's (CSLI) ELaNa (Educational Launch of Nanosatellites) 43 mission rolls out of the company's Payload Processing Facility to Space Launch Complex 2 at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, on Sunday, June 30, 2024. Photo credit: Firefly Aerospace

NASA and Firefly Aerospace are now targeting 9:03 p.m. PDT, July 1 (12:03 a.m. EDT, July 2) for the launch of eight CubeSats as part of NASA's CubeSat Launch Initiative's (CSLI) ELaNa (Educational Launch of Nanosatellites) 43.

Firefly Aerospace's "Noise of Summer" will launch on an Alpha rocket from Space Launch Complex 2 at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.