Firefly Aerospace, a Texas-based developer of orbital launch vehicles for small to medium sized satellites, is opening an R&D center in Dnipro

Firefly Aerospace, a Texas-based developer of orbital launch vehicles for small to medium sized satellites, is opening an R&D center in Dnipro. Firefly Ukraine is to hire more 150 technicians. Charged with designing and manufacturing components of launch vehicles, the Dnipro office will be equipped with the largest Ukraine’s largest 3D-printer in Ukraine, intended for industrial manufacturing of high-quality metal parts. Max Polyakov, founder of Firefly and a native of Dnipro, chose his home city because it is a center for Ukraine’s rocket and aerospace industry.