Firefly Aerospace, operating from the domain name Firefly.com, has launched its first rocket, Alpha.
Everything looked good for the first 2 minutes and 30 seconds of the flight, but the two-stage, 95-foot-tall (29 meters) Alpha then suffered a major anomaly and exploded in a dramatic fireball in the California sky.
The company was formed when former Firefly Space Systems assets were acquired by EOS Launcher in March 2017, which was then renamed Firefly Aerospace.
Firefly Aerospace – Firefly.com
In 2019, they acquired the domain Firefly.com, a former asset of Microsoft.
Firefly.com was acquired from Microsoft by domain investor James Booth during his BQDN tenure; James Booth then sold it to Media Options for Bitcoin.
In a dramatic fashion, Media Options flipped the domain Firefly.com months later and now you know who bought it.
As far as we know there has been no official release on how much money Firefly Aerospace paid to acquire the domain Firefly.com. It could have been sold for either six or seven figures, no doubt.
Watch the first Firefly Aerospace rocket launch video:
