{"id":786818,"date":"2026-07-07T20:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T20:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/786818\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T20:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T20:44:09","slug":"firefly-aerospace-to-produce-shell-for-nasas-skyfall-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/786818\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefly Aerospace To Produce Shell For NASA\u2019s SkyFall Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Firefly Aerospace To Produce Shell For NASA\u2019s SkyFall Mission | Aviation Week<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/aviationweek.com\/themes\/custom\/particle\/dist\/app-drupal\/assets\/AW_logo_horizontal_small_white.svg<\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"#main-content\" class=\"visually-hidden focusable\"><br \/>\n      Skip to main content<br \/>\n    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>    <a id=\"main-content\" tabindex=\"-1\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p>                        Avril Silva<br \/>\n                    July 07, 2026<\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/nasa-skyfall-firefly-render-meatball-and-firefly-bug-1500x844.webp\" alt=\"rendering of NASA spacecraft descending to Mars\" class=\"b-lazy  img \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Credit: Firefly Aerospace<\/p>\n<p>  Firefly Aerospace has won a contract to build the protective shell for NASA\u2019s mission to deploy helicopters to Mars. NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) handed the company a $13 million subcontract to manufacture, test and deliver an aeroshell to help protect the SkyFall spacecraft and payload&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>            Subscription Required<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:25px;\">Firefly Aerospace To Produce Shell For NASA\u2019s SkyFall Mission is published in Aerospace Daily &amp; Defense Report, an Aviation Week Intelligence Network (AWIN) Market Briefing and is included with your AWIN membership.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:25px;\">Already a member of AWIN or subscribe to Aerospace Daily &amp; Defense Report through your company? <a href=\"https:\/\/aviationweek.com\/user\/login\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Login<\/a>\u00a0with your existing email and password.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:25px;\">Not a member?\u00a0 Learn how you can access the market intelligence and data you need to stay abreast of what&#8217;s happening in the aerospace and defense community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Firefly Aerospace To Produce Shell For NASA\u2019s SkyFall Mission | Aviation Week https:\/\/aviationweek.com\/themes\/custom\/particle\/dist\/app-drupal\/assets\/AW_logo_horizontal_small_white.svg Skip to main content Avril&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":786819,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[49,48,66,306],"class_list":["post-786818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=786818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/786819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}