American provider of cost-effective rockets Firefly ordered in the southern machine building plant named after Makarov (Yuzhmash) in the river parts for missiles for a total of about $ 15 million. About this on his page in Facebook said the Head of the analytical center "Eidos" Viktor Taran.
"a Small victory happened just a week ago, when an American aerospace company Firefly Aerospace, collaborating with NASA and the U.S. air force, made the order Pivdenmash for mass production of missile parts, among which 100 cameras combustions, 500 pieces of automatics and 40 turbopumps. According to preliminary data, subject to the volume, Yuzhmash specialists evaluated a deal in 15 millionof dollars. And such cooperation became possible thanks to accepted a month ago the law about private space" - wrote the expert.
Taran Also noted that this amount will be sufficient to cover the current debts Yuzhmash.
Firefly Aerospace is a private aerospace company based in Austin (USA). the Owner and Director of Firefly Aerospace is Maxim Polyakov, a native of the Dnieper. In may 2018 Firefly Aerospace has opened a research center in the river. Firefly Aerospace selected for NASA program of lunar exploration. Firefly light Aerospace is developing launch vehicles for small satellites and cube-Sats in space: Firefly Alpha and Firefly Beta.
