Satellite launch company FireFly aims to lighten costs

(Phys.org) --Satellite launch company FireFly Space Systems, with locations in Austin, Texas and Hawthorne, California, founded early this year, is on a mission: Cut the costs for lighter loads going to low Earth orbit. The company said in setting out to do business there was a governing goal, to "create the lowest cost vehicle with the highest performance possible." What kinds of lighter loads are they talking about? New Scientist said, for example, the loads would be in the form of constellati...