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Why can't Firefly get its cadence up?

https://web.archive.org/web/20230131173552/https://fireflyspace.com/alpha/
https://web.archive.org/web/20230227062430/https://fireflyspace.com/alpha/
Firefly Alpha payload capacity on its website dropped from 745kg to 630kg to 500km SSO. Also changed 1170kg to 200km LEO to 1030kg to 300km.

>Firefly hasn't flown in 8 months and has still yet to do so fully successfully
>ABL has been MIA for months
When are these guys going under?

Did Firefly take down its official recap video of its first launch (source of pic rel)? Really needing to see that right about now.

Will they get their launch cadence up?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2bzJuMEfXM
Wow, Firefly learned to static fire its stages. How innovative.

https://spacenews.com/firefly-hires-new-ceo-ahead-of-second-launch/
>Firefly announced Sept. 1 that it hired Bill Weber as its new chief executive, effective immediately.
>Weber was previously president and chief executive of KeyW Corporation, a cyberspace operations and geospatial intelligence company serving the national security community. Jacobs acquired KeyW in 2019 for $815 million.
>Before KeyW, he was an executive at several other companies supporting the federal government in national security and diplomacy, including XLA, Kaseman and GTSI Corporation. He also was a founding partner of First Light Acquisition Corporation, a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) seeking to merge with a company in the aerospace and defense markets.
this guy is even more oldspace than the interim guy

https://spacenews.com/firefly-gears-up-for-second-alpha-launch/
>Firefly Aerospace is preparing for the second launch of its Alpha rocket in late August or early September
a whole year
>The company is waiting on a launch license from the Federal Aviation Administration, which in turn depends on approval of a new debris model for the rocket.
huh
>To achieve that higher flight rate, the company is performing “lean manufacturing exercises” as well as working with its supply chain to ensure a steady supply of external components. “Just making sure we’re getting ahead of long-lead ordering,” he said, “and ensuring that our internal manufacturing is as lean as possible and can meet the rates that we need.”
>Schumacher said the company is working quickly to find a permanent replacement, hiring an executive search firm, Korn Ferry, to identify potential candidates. Interviews of some of those candidates have started. “We’re targeting to have the CEO ideally chosen by the end of July and then in place sometime mid-August.”
get the MBAs away from my firefly ree

Where is Firefly Alpha?