Promise Ledger
Launch vehicles (Alpha) and lunar landers (Blue Ghost). These are the dated public commitments by Firefly Aerospace and its people that we could source to a primary, with what happened.
5 entries: 2 met; 1 revised; 2 pending.
Plain counts, not a grade or a ranking. A short record is not a complete one. Checked against sources on Sep 26, 2026; scoring rules on the methodology page.
This first release is a selection, and a short record is not a complete record. Each programme milestone enters the ledger at its earliest dated public commitment we can find in a primary source, for governments and companies alike. Later dated commitments for the same milestone are shown on that one entry as a revision chain, oldest first, rather than as separate entries.
Revised · worded as a commitment
Landing · Firefly Aerospace
“Firefly’s ‘Blue Ghost’ lunar lander will deliver the payloads to the lunar surface in 2023”
Said . Source: Firefly Aerospace: NASA Awards Firefly Aerospace $93.3M to Deliver Suite of Payloads to the Moon in 2023 (Feb 4, 2021, paragraph 1)
Context: Release on NASA's CLPS task order 19D award (Mare Crisium); this became Blue Ghost Mission 1.
Later dated commitments for the same milestone
The counts use the original commitment. The latest date in the chain stands as: met.
Outcome: Blue Ghost touched down near Mons Latreille in Mare Crisium on 2025-03-02; Firefly reported the lander upright in a stable configuration. (, on or before the latest deadline)
Outcome source: Firefly Aerospace: Firefly Aerospace Becomes First Commercial Company to Successfully Land on the Moon (Mar 2, 2025)
Checked against the source on Sep 26, 2026. Report a correction or send a response to this entry
Met · worded as a target
Launch · Firefly Aerospace
“launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket during a six-day window that opens no earlier than mid-January 2025”
Said . Source: Firefly Aerospace: Firefly Aerospace Blue Ghost Mission 1 to the Moon Readies for Launch (Nov 25, 2024, paragraph 1 (dateline 'Cedar Park, Texas, November 25, 2024'))
Outcome: Blue Ghost Mission 1 launched from Launch Complex 39A at 1:11 a.m. EST on 2025-01-15. (, on or before the deadline)
Outcome source: Firefly Aerospace: Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost Mission 1 Successfully Launches and Begins 45-Day Transit to the Moon (Jan 15, 2025)
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Met · worded as a target
Launch · Firefly Aerospace
“preparing to ship the next first stage from Firefly's production line for an Alpha Flight 7 launch between the end of the fourth quarter and early first quarter”
Said . Source: Firefly Aerospace (SEC Form 8-K, Exhibit 99.1): Firefly Aerospace third quarter 2025 financial results release (Nov 12, 2025)
Context: Third quarter 2025 results; Alpha's return to flight after the April 2025 Flight 6 failure and a first-stage test-stand event on 2025-09-29. Firefly's fiscal year is the calendar year.
Outcome: Alpha Flight 7 ('Stairway to Seven') launched from Vandenberg SLC-2 on 2026-03-11; Firefly reported that all mission objectives were completed. (, on or before the deadline)
Outcome source: Firefly Aerospace (SEC Form 8-K, Exhibit 99.1): Firefly Aerospace fourth quarter and full year 2025 financial results release (Mar 19, 2026)
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Pending · worded as a commitment
Launch · Firefly Aerospace
“The Rashid 2 Rover will join Firefly’s second lunar mission in 2026”
Said . Source: Firefly Aerospace: Firefly Aerospace Adds UAE's Rashid 2 Rover to Blue Ghost Mission to the Far Side of the Moon (May 22, 2025, paragraph 1)
Outcome: Not launched as of 2026-09-26. Firefly's 10-K filed 2026-03-20 still said 2026; Firefly's current mission page, which carries no date, says no earlier than 2027.
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Pending · worded as a possibility
First flight · Firefly Aerospace
“which will power the debut launch of Eclipse which is expected to take place as early as next year”
Said . Source: Firefly Aerospace (SEC Form 8-K, Exhibit 99.1): Firefly Aerospace Announces Second Quarter 2025 Financial Results After Historic IPO (Sep 22, 2025, additional recent highlights)
Context: Subject: the Miranda engine; 'next year' is 2026.
Outcome: Firefly's 2026-08-11 results release reports more than 150 hot fire tests of Eclipse's Miranda engine and gives no Eclipse launch date.
Outcome source: Firefly Aerospace (SEC Form 8-K, Exhibit 99.1): Firefly second quarter 2026 financial results release (Aug 11, 2026)
Checked against the source on Sep 26, 2026. Report a correction or send a response to this entry
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