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Firefly Aerospace

operating 501–1,000 employees Public Company

Designs and operates small- and medium-lift launch vehicles, lunar landers, and in-space maneuvering vehicles for defense, civil, and commercial space missions.

About

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.

Products & Services

Two-stage small-lift launch vehicle delivering 1,030 kg to LEO using LOX/RP-1 tap-off cycle engines and carbon composite structures
Lunar lander delivering up to 240 kg to the lunar surface with support for lunar day and night operations
Medium-lift launch vehicle co-developed with Northrop Grumman, 16,300 kg to LEO, powered by seven Miranda engines, first flight targeted 2026
Family of in-space maneuvering and servicing vehicles in Dawn, Dusk, and Dark configurations for payload delivery, imaging, and communications
Commercial lunar imaging service providing high-resolution surface mapping and mineral detection from Elytra vehicles in lunar orbit

Locations

Cedar Park, TX
HQ & Spacecraft Facility
Briggs, TX
Rocket Ranch - LV Production & Test
Lompoc, CA
VSFB SLC-2
Wallops Island, VA
MARS Pad-0A
Cape Canaveral, FL
CCSFS SLC-20
Kiruna, SWE
Esrange Space Center

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Overview

Founded 2014
HQ Cedar Park, Texas, USA
Type Public Company

Financials

Ticker FLY
Exchange NASDAQ
Revenue $123M

Leadership

Jason Kim
Chief Executive Officer
Darren Ma
Chief Financial Officer
Shea Ferring
Chief Technology Officer
Dan Fermon
Chief Operating Officer
David Wheeler
General Counsel
John Termotto
Chief People Officer
Brad Warezak
Chief Information Officer
Olga Bai
Chief of Staff

Classification