But Kim is unfazed. He sees gaps in the launch market for Firefly's Alpha and coming MLV rockets, which slot into the middle of the small-to-heavy class of vehicles. "In the history of the world ...

The spacecraft built and operated by Texas-based Firefly Aerospace launched in the early Wednesday hours from Florida aboard a SpaceX rocket. Ahead of the lunar lander is a 60-day mission to Earth ...

Firefly is, however, working on a new, more robust rocket, called the MLV, which it expects to fly in 2026. If that's successful -- and this moon mission succeeds as well -- it's entirely possible ...