"Prometheus Run"

Prometheus Run carried a Johns Hopkins APL payload built under Project BLAST, the Missile Defense Agency's push for lower-cost suborbital missile-defense target launches - the first missile defense test of its type to fly on a commercial launch vehicle - alongside secondary payloads from federal and industry partners testing hypersonic technologies. The contract, placed through the Defense Innovation Unit's HyCAT program, which funds commercial hypersonic test flights for the Pentagon, ran 14 months from signing to launch.