Several months ago, I had the opportunity to chat with Bill Weber, CEO of privately owned space company Firefly Aerospace, about the company's several space projects. These range from building rockets with Northrop Grumman, to designing "space tugs" to repair satellites in orbit, to preparing to launch a new satellite for the U.S. Space Force. At the time, Firefly Aerospace numbered among probably a dozen or more small space start-ups still working to achieve a fully successful launch to orbit.

Today, Firefly Aerospace is part of an even smaller club of space companies -- the ones that have succeeded in reaching orbit. To discuss this accomplishment, I spoke with Weber again last month.

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