# Firefly Aerospace: space company profile

> Firefly Aerospace: Firefly Aerospace, which listed on the NYSE in 2025 raising $868 million, landed its Blue Ghost lunar lander on the Moon in March 2025 carrying NASA CLPS payloads.

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## Profile facts

- Name: Firefly Aerospace (legal name Firefly Aerospace Inc.)
- What it does: Firefly Aerospace, which listed on the NYSE in 2025 raising $868 million, landed its Blue Ghost lunar lander on the Moon in March 2025 carrying NASA CLPS payloads. (SpaceNexus analyst note)
- Sector: launch
- Headquarters: Leander, Texas, US
- Founded: 2017
- Employees: 1001-5000
- Chief executive: Jason Kim
- Status: active
- Ownership: public
- Publicly traded: yes, FLY on NASDAQ
- Website: [https://www.fireflyspace.com](https://www.fireflyspace.com) (SpaceNexus profile)
- Profile claimed by the company: no
- Profile last verified: 2026-10-13

## Market data

- Share price: $18.34 (-5.32% over 24 hours)
- Market capitalisation: $3.07B
- Quote: Yahoo Finance, fetched 2026-10-14 09:03 UTC
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## Funding

- Raised privately before listing: $636M (9 private rounds on record before Aug 2025. IPO, offerings, debt and unconverted notes are listed under Funding history by class and not added in.)
- Last private round: Series D-1 (closings April to July 2025)

| Date | Round | Amount (USD) | Lead investor | Source |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2026-06-23 | Business combination (Form D) | $22.0M | - | [SEC EDGAR Form D](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1860160/000119312526298515/0001193125-26-298515-index.htm) |
| 2025-08-07 | IPO | $998.6M | - | [CNBC](https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/07/rocket-maker-firefly-aerospace-fly-stock-ipo.html) |
| 2025-07-31 | Series D-1 (closings April to July 2025) | $60.0M | - | [SEC EDGAR (Form 424B4)](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1860160/000119312525175679/d849748d424b4.htm) |
| 2025-07-01 | Series D-4 | $58.7M | - | [SEC EDGAR (Firefly Aerospace Form 424B4 prospectus)](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1860160/000119312525175679/d849748d424b4.htm) |
| 2025-04-10 | Series D-3 | $10.0M | - | [SEC EDGAR (Firefly Aerospace Form 424B4 prospectus)](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1860160/000119312525175679/d849748d424b4.htm) |
| 2025-01-31 | Series D-1 (additional closings) | $111.0M | - | [SEC EDGAR (Form 424B4)](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1860160/000119312525175679/d849748d424b4.htm) |
| 2025-01-31 | Series D-1 (controlling owner AE Industrial) | $5.0M | - | [SEC EDGAR (Form 424B4)](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1860160/000119312525175679/d849748d424b4.htm) |
| 2024-11-15 | Series D-1 (subsequent closing) | $1.3M | - | [SEC EDGAR (Form 424B4)](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1860160/000119312525175679/d849748d424b4.htm) |
| 2024-10-31 | Series D-1 | $65.7M | - | [SEC EDGAR (Firefly Aerospace Form 424B4 prospectus)](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1860160/000119312525175679/d849748d424b4.htm) |
| 2024-10-31 | Series D-1 (controlling owner AE Industrial) | $109.8M | - | [SEC EDGAR (Form 424B4)](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1860160/000119312525175679/d849748d424b4.htm) |
| 2023-07-17 | Series J preferred warrants issued with term loans (Form D) | $12.3M | - | [SEC EDGAR Form D](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1860160/000186016024000002/0001860160-24-000002-index.htm) |
| 2023-02-02 | equity | $179.3M | - | [SEC EDGAR Form D](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1860160/000186016024000001/0001860160-24-000001-index.htm) |
| 2022-03-22 | Series B | $75.0M | AE Industrial Partners | [SEC EDGAR (Firefly Aerospace Form 424B4 prospectus)](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1860160/000119312525175679/d849748d424b4.htm) |
| 2021-04-16 | Series A | $75.0M | - | [SEC EDGAR Form D](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1860160/000186016021000001/0001860160-21-000001-index.htm) |

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## Space Score

- Score 516 of 1000, tier Emerging.
- Rank 37 of 93 ranked companies.
- 8 of 9 inputs measured, high confidence, 100% of applicable pillar weight backed by data; measured 2026-10-14 02:10 UTC.
- Scale (35% of this total): 54 of 100
- Government space demand (24% of this total): 92 of 100
- Capital access (15% nominal, dropped): does not apply
- Momentum (18% of this total): 21 of 100; not measured: Open-role change (90 days)
- Flight record (24% of this total): 30 of 100
- Every input, value and percentile: [breakdown](https://spacenexus.us/rankings/space-score-methodology?company=firefly-aerospace#breakdown)
- The Space Score is a 0 to 1000 snapshot of a space company's size and activity, relative to the other companies we track. It combines size (headcount, market value and revenue, 30%), U.S. federal space contracts (20%), equity raised (15%), momentum (15%) and, for launch companies, orbital launches (20%), so it leans heavily on size. It is descriptive: not a forecast, a rating or investment advice.
- The Space Score ranks companies relative to each other on public data we hold. It describes; it does not rate, forecast or recommend. It is not a credit rating and not investment advice.

## Government contracts (latest)

| Award date | Agency | Title | Value (USD) | Source |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2026-06-30 | NASA | FINALIZE THE MISSION DESIGN, EXECUTE LONG LEAD PROCUREMENTS TO SUPPORT THE AGGRESSIVE SCHEDULE, AND DELIVER ALL BASE MILESTONES AND PRODUCTS. | $25.9M | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_80JSC026F7019_8000_80HQTR19D0009_8000) |
| 2025-07-29 | NASA | COMMERCIAL LUNAR PAYLOAD SERVICES (CLPS) CONTRACT TASK ORDER CS-6. | $77.9M | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_80JSC025F7057_8000_80HQTR19D0009_8000) |
| 2025-07-16 | NASA | CX-1 FIREFLY MID-SIZED LANDER STUDY BASE AWARD | $599K | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_80JSC025F7059_8000_80HQTR19D0009_8000) |
| 2024-12-18 | NASA | COMMERCIAL LUNAR PAYLOAD SERVICES (CLPS) | $108.2M | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_80JSC025F7026_8000_80HQTR19D0009_8000) |
| 2023-08-25 | NASA | COMMERCIAL LUNAR PAYLOAD SERVICES (CLPS) | $19.3M | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_80JSC023F0108_8000_80HQTR19D0009_8000) |
| 2023-03-29 | NASA | VENTURE-CLASS ACQUISITION OF DEDICATED AND RIDESHARE (VADR) UMBRELLA TASK ORDER | $24.2M | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_80KSC023FA112_8000_80KSC022DA112_8000) |
| 2023-03-14 | NASA | COMMERCIAL LUNAR PAYLOAD SERVICES (CLPS) TASK ORDER CS-3 | $112.8M | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_80JSC023F0041_8000_80HQTR19D0009_8000) |
| 2021-02-04 | NASA | ENHAMCED LANDING AND MONILITY STUDY | $110.6M | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_80JSC021F0098_8000_80HQTR19D0009_8000) |
| 2020-12-11 | NASA | VENTURE CLASS LAUNCH SERVICE DEMONSTRATION 2 (VCLS DEMO 2) CONTRACT | $8.0M | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_80KSC021C0004_8000_-NONE-_-NONE-) |

## Operations

- Open roles on the SpaceNexus jobs board: 81

## Sources

- [SpaceNexus company database](https://spacenexus.us/company-profiles): profile facts, with the verification date above
- Each funding round's cited source: SEC filings, company announcements and press reports, linked per round
- Yahoo Finance: share price and market capitalisation
- Federal award records: contract awards

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