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BY KAMERYN GRIESSER
Most of the employees at the Cedar Park facility are engineers, a company o cial said.
Fire y Aerospace’s facility in Briggs recently expanded to accommodate the manufacturing of their latest launch vehicle.
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Cedar Park’s Fire y Aerospace shoots for the moon Among Cedar Park’s unsuspecting business parks, a team of engineers are hard at work completing a spacecraft that will land on the moon later this year. Fire y Aerospace designs, manufactures and tests its own rockets for commercial and government uses. The rockets are made to carry objects such as
The structure of the Blue Ghost lunar lander was completed in October, according to a news release.
employees, thanks in part to incentives from Cedar Park’s Economic Development and Tourism Depart- ment, Chief Operating O cer Dan Fermon said. One of the company’s biggest milestones was the successful launch of their Fire y Alpha rocket in October 2022, Fermon said. What’s next The Blue Ghost mission is just one of two moon landings the company has planned with NASA. The second—slated for 2026—will enlist seismic technol- ogy to search for water beneath the lunar surface. As for Fire y’s long-term goals, its evolving line of launch vehicles and spacecraft could eventually be capable of transportation to distant planets like Mars, according to the company website.
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satellites and research equipment into space. In 2021, NASA awarded the company contracts totaling $230 million to create an unmanned lunar lander, called Blue Ghost, as a part of its e orts to re-establish human presence on the moon. The impact The Cedar Park headquarters houses its design labs, support teams and mission control centers. Since 2022, the company has added over 300 new
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