Ukraine’s Pivdenmash Sends Beta Launch Vehicle First Stage Model to Firefly Aerospace
DNIPRO, Ukraine (State Space Agency of Ukraine PR) — The State Enterprise Production Association Southern Machine-Building Plant OHM Makarov (Pivdenmash, formerly PA Yuzhmash) sent a dimensional docking model of the first stage of the Beta medium-range launch vehicle to the customer, Firefly Aerospace.
The model was made at PIVDENMASH under a contract with Firefly Aerospace and in accordance with its design documentation.
The product will simulate the docking of two to four engine units on liquid fuel components.
The model was transported to the Black Sea port, from where the cargo route travel to the Port of Houston in Texas.
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So Firefly is already having metal bent for Beta. And Relativity is already making pathfinder parts for Terran-R. I wonder if Rocket Lab has already got some pathfinder Neutron parts fabricated? If not, it had better get about doing that fairly soon. Two launch companies which have yet to fly their initial offerings are already at work on successor vehicles. I think the smell of giant Starships is getting pervasive in the launch vehicle patch and the smaller animals are scrambling for ways to stay in the game once those beasts are loose in their natural habitat.