Firefly Aerospace
Designs and operates small- and medium-lift launch vehicles, lunar landers, and in-space maneuvering vehicles for defense, civil, and commercial space missions.
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Firefly Aerospace designs and operates launch vehicles, lunar landers, and in-space maneuvering vehicles. The company's Alpha rocket is a small-lift vehicle delivering over 1,000 kg to low Earth orbit. Eclipse, co-developed with Northrop Grumman, is a medium-lift vehicle with 16,300 kg capacity to LEO, targeting first flight in 2026.
Blue Ghost is a lunar lander delivering up to 240 kg to the lunar surface under NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services program. Firefly completed the first successful commercial Moon landing with Blue Ghost Mission 1 in March 2025 and has four additional lunar missions booked through 2029. The Elytra vehicle line provides in-space maneuvering and payload delivery across LEO to cislunar space. Ocula, a lunar imaging service operated from Elytra vehicles, offers high-resolution surface mapping and mineral detection.
Firefly is headquartered in Cedar Park, Texas, with launch sites at Vandenberg, Wallops Island, Cape Canaveral, and Esrange in Sweden. The company went public on NASDAQ in August 2025.
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