This Week In Launch: Firefly back for its fifth flight
![Firefly Alpha rocket](https://spaceexplored.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/Alpha-Stage-1-and-Stage-2-Mated-with-Payload-Fairing-scaled-1.jpg?quality=82&strip=all&w=1600)
On this quiet holiday week, China will actually be launching more than SpaceX, and even on Fourth of July (how rude). However, we do finally get to see Firefly return to the launch site after December’s partial failure of its Alpha rocket – scheduled for late Monday evening.
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