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Firefly Aerospace's Bill Weber says in a small launch vehicle panel at #smallsatsymposium they're preparing for an Alpha launch for a responsive space mission in May; after that, perform launches every two months.
Virgin Orbit's Dan Hart: investigation into LauncherOne failure last month still in progress, but everything points to a filter in the second stage that got dislodged and "caused mischief downstream." It was "a $100 part that took us out." Working on return to flight from Mojave.
Lots of discussion on the panel about affordability and launch costs. Arianespace's Marino Fragnito suggests an unnamed company (which sounds a lot like SpaceX) is setting smallsat launch costs so low on rideshare missions other companies can't make money.
