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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.
FLYACTIVEFirefly Aerospace is a Cedar Park, Texas space and defense technology company offering launch (Alpha and Eclipse rockets) and spacecraft (Blue Ghost lunar lander, Elytra) solutions. Its Blue Ghost Mission 1 landed and operated on the Moon on March 2, 2025, and it completed its IPO on Nasdaq (ticker FLY) on August 8, 2025.
Firefly Aerospace is a Cedar Park, Texas space and defense technology company offering launch (Alpha and Eclipse rockets) and spacecraft (Blue Ghost lunar lander, Elytra) solutions. Its Blue Ghost Mission 1 landed and operated on the Moon on March 2, 2025, and it completed its IPO on Nasdaq (ticker FLY) on August 8, 2025.
Rank 37 of 93 ranked companies
8 of 9 inputs measured · High confidence · 100% of applicable weight backed by data
Not measured: Open-role change (90 days)
A pillar score averages the company’s percentiles among the tracked companies with a value: relative standing, not a grade. Inputs measured 2026-10-14 (UTC) · methodology v6. Every input, its value and percentile · How it is computed
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2203 Scottsdale Drive, Leander, Texas 78641
Sources: Founded, Headquarters, CEO, Employees, Legal name
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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.
Hiring
81 open roles right now →
Latest government contract
FINALIZE THE MISSION DESIGN, EXECUTE LONG LEAD PROCUREMENTS TO SUPPORT THE AGGRESSIVE SCHEDULE, AND DELIVER ALL BASE MILESTONES AND PRODUCTS.
NASA · $26M · Jun 30, 2026
Latest funding round
Business combination (Form D) · $22M
Jun 23, 2026
Latest SEC filing
10-Q · Aug 11, 2026 · EDGAR ↗
Medium-lift, partially reusable launch vehicle co-developed by Firefly and Northrop Grumman (formerly MLV), 16,300 kg to LEO; first launch no earlier than 2027 from Wallops.
Its lunar missions in our catalogue of every Moon mission since 1958, with dates, outcomes and sources:
NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services in the US Moon program · US vs China race to the Moon tracker
Stage, milestones, announced next steps and slips, funding and filings, every fact sourced:
Contracts, suppliers, launches and schedule for each program, every fact sourced:
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5 dated public commitments by Firefly Aerospace, with sources and outcomes on the Promise Ledger.
Estimated: around Wed, Nov 11, 2026 (not announced by the company) · period ending September 2026
Estimated from the company's own SEC filings: it reported the same period a year earlier on Wed, Nov 12, 2025. The company has not announced this date.
Results filed Tue, Aug 11, 2026, after the market closed · period ending June 2026
Share move: not captured (no closing quote was recorded for that session)
Results filing (SEC) (opens in a new tab) · Press release (opens in a new tab)
Prospectus (424B3)
Sets or updates the terms of an offering; a 424B3 is often a resale prospectus for existing holders rather than new money. A public-market offering, not a private funding round. Not counted in private funding totals.
Prospectus (424B3) · · Read the filing on SEC.gov (opens in a new tab) · Filing index (opens in a new tab)
Director or officer change, or executive pay arrangement
Current report (8-K) · · Read the filing on SEC.gov (opens in a new tab) · Filing index (opens in a new tab)
Amendment: Passive holder of 5% or more (Schedule 13G/A)
Amendment: Passive holder of 5% or more (Schedule 13G/A) · · Read the filing on SEC.gov (opens in a new tab) · Filing index (opens in a new tab)
Amendment: Passive holder of 5% or more (Schedule 13G/A)
Amendment: Passive holder of 5% or more (Schedule 13G/A) · · Read the filing on SEC.gov (opens in a new tab) · Filing index (opens in a new tab)
Prospectus (424B3)
Sets or updates the terms of an offering; a 424B3 is often a resale prospectus for existing holders rather than new money. A public-market offering, not a private funding round. Not counted in private funding totals.
Prospectus (424B3) · · Read the filing on SEC.gov (opens in a new tab) · Filing index (opens in a new tab)
Quarterly report (10-Q)
Quarterly report (10-Q) · · Read the filing on SEC.gov (opens in a new tab) · Filing index (opens in a new tab)
Compiled Oct 14, 2026 from 12 public records. Every figure links the record it comes from. Facts only: nothing here is a rating, a forecast or a recommendation.
Space federal awards
9 awards, $487.5M obligated
Awards with activity since Oct 1, 2018, as searched Sep 24, 2026. Awarded Dec 11, 2020 to Jun 30, 2026; most from NASA (9 awards)
Counts awards the government's own product code or programme title marks as space work, or the space research industry code; the satellite-telecoms industry code counts only together with a space agency, office or a space word in the award's own description. Obligated dollars, not ceilings; umbrella contracts (IDVs) are left out because their orders are counted one by one. Amounts as USAspending reported them on Sep 24, 2026.
Source: USAspending.gov recipient profile (all awards, not only space)
Latest award Jun 30, 2026
Latest space award
$25.9M from NASA
FINALIZE THE MISSION DESIGN, EXECUTE LONG LEAD PROCUREMENTS TO SUPPORT THE AGGRESSIVE SCHEDULE, AND DELIVER ALL BASE MILESTONES AND PRODUCT...
Source: USAspending.gov award record
Awarded Jun 30, 2026
SEC filings, last 12 months
99 filings
Including 4 periodic reports and 13 current reports
Source: SEC EDGAR company filings
Latest Oct 7, 2026
Sourced rounds on record
13 rounds, $1.76B disclosed
Every round has a disclosed amount
Published rounds with a source link only, on the same rules as the funding tracker. Each round links the source that states its figure; amounts in other currencies are converted to dollars at the rate shown on the funding tracker.
Open roles
81 open roles
90 days ago: before our daily count began (Aug 13, 2026)
Roles on the company's own jobs board, read by our daily sync. Listings posted or paid for on SpaceNexus are not counted. Earlier daily counts include every listed role.
Source: A current posting on the company jobs board
Counted Oct 13, 2026
Launches flown as provider
2 since Nov 18, 2024
1 failed. Latest: Firefly Alpha | Stairway to Seven
Our launch record starts Nov 18, 2024; earlier launches are not counted here. Every kind of launch in the feed counts, crewed, lunar and station missions included.
Source: Launch Library 2 launch record
Latest launch Mar 12, 2026
Next launch
Firefly Alpha Block 2 | QuickSounder
Date to be determined; 6 more on the manifest, 6 of them dated only to a month, quarter or year
Source: Launch Library 2 launch record
No earlier than Feb 15, 2027
Satellites owned or operated
0 in orbit of 1 launched
Latest: Blue Ghost
Payloads GCAT lists with this organisation as owner or operator. "In orbit" is GCAT status O. Counted under GCAT organisation codes FFLY, SFLINF. Catalogue updated Sep 24, 2026.
Source: GCAT satellite catalogue
Latest launch Jan 15, 2025
Satellites built
1 payload launched, 0 in orbit
Latest: Blue Ghost
Payloads GCAT lists with this organisation as manufacturer. Counted under GCAT organisation codes FFLY, SFLINF. Catalogue updated Sep 24, 2026.
Source: GCAT satellite catalogue
Latest launch Jan 15, 2025
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
9 space awards, $487.5M obligated
USAspending.gov award record, Jun 30, 2026
AE Industrial Partners
Recorded as lead of Series B (Mar 22, 2022)
SEC EDGAR, Mar 22, 2022
Took part in Series B (Mar 22, 2022)
Satellite data from GCAT (J. McDowell, planet4589.org/space/gcat), CC BY 4.0.
APA
SpaceNexus. (2026, October 14). Firefly Aerospace: Company dossier [Data set]. Retrieved October 14, 2026, from https://spacenexus.us/company-profiles/firefly-aerospace
Chicago
SpaceNexus. "Firefly Aerospace: Company dossier." Data as of October 14, 2026. Accessed October 14, 2026. https://spacenexus.us/company-profiles/firefly-aerospace.
BibTeX
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author = {{SpaceNexus}},
title = {{Firefly Aerospace}: Company dossier},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
howpublished = {\url{https://spacenexus.us/company-profiles/firefly-aerospace}},
url = {https://spacenexus.us/company-profiles/firefly-aerospace},
urldate = {2026-10-14},
note = {Data as of 2026-10-14; each fact links its primary source}
}