You can watch it live if you want.
On Sunday, the company plans to launch its Alpha rocket on a test mission. California time is 2200GMT. Space.com will carry the liftoff via Firefly and its livestream partner, EverydayAstronaut.com, if possible.
Alpha's first attempt to make it to space was a failure. The first attempt to send a rocket into space ended in a fireball.
A rocket engine is used to light candles.
One of Alpha's four first-stage Reaver engines shut down 15 seconds into the flight. The premature closing of the main propellant valves was the cause of the problem. Alpha is back on the pad.
During last year's launch, the rocket carried satellites. Two tiny cubesats, provided by the nonprofit Teachers in Space, and a collaboration between NASA and San Jose State University, will be flying aboard Alpha this time around.
Firefly wrote in a mission description that Alpha is carrying a deployer called PicoBus that will send a bunch of smaller "picosats" into the sky.
Similar to Rocket Lab's Electron, Alpha is an expendable rocket that can be used to send small satellites into space. Firefly's Alpha user's guide states that Alpha can loft 2,580 pounds (1,170 kilograms) to low Earth orbit at a price of fifteen million dollars per launch.
On Saturday night, the BlueWalker 3 test satellite was lofted along with a bunch of other Starlink broadband satellites by the company.
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