Firefly Aerospace

Alpha Flight 7 successfully reaches orbit, deploys a Lockheed Martin demo payload, and validates key Block II upgrades ahead of Flight 8.

Firefly reports $80.9M of Q1 revenue, maintains $420M-$450M full-year guidance, and says Q1 momentum included Golden Dome interceptor work, Blue Ghost milestones, Alpha Flight 7, and responsive-space demonstrations.

On May 4 Firefly subsidiary SciTec receives an Other Transaction Authority agreement from U.S. Space Force Space Systems Command under the Space-Based Interceptor (SBI) program, part of a 20-agreement, $3.2B effort across 12 companies to build out the Golden Dome space-based missile defense layer by 2028.

On May 26 NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory awards Firefly a $75M subcontract for the MoonFall mission, in which Firefly's Elytra transfer vehicle will carry four drones over a ~45-day cislunar transit, enter lunar orbit, and deploy the drones about 50 km above the surface to survey the lunar south pole — including permanently shadowed regions — for NASA's Moon Base initiative, launching no earlier than 2028.

Firefly prices a public offering of 4M new shares plus 8M secondary shares from existing stockholders at $48.00/share (with a 1.8M-share underwriter option); the offering closed June 1, 2026 for general corporate purposes including supporting recently awarded programs.

On May 19, 2026 Firefly moves into an expanded Cedar Park headquarters that doubles its prior Texas footprint to 144,000 sq ft across two adjacent new buildings. The campus templates Blue Ghost into a production line capable of multiple annual lunar missions for NASA's Moon Base initiative, adds a cleanroom four times the size of the prior one for Blue Ghost and Elytra assembly, and stands up the new 'Gloworks' innovation lab for propulsion, carbon composites, robotics, and 3D printing R&D.

On June 2, 2026 Firefly subsidiary SciTec is selected by the U.S. Air Force PAE C3BM to deliver the operational data fusion system for the Cloud-Based Command and Control (CBC2) program — a $5.5M option exercised under an original $24M 2024 IDIQ award and supporting NORAD, USNORTHCOM, and PACAF homeland-defense battle management.

Per Reuters reporting (June 23, 2026), the U.S. Export-Import Bank is set to authorize a roughly $110M loan to Firefly to help fund the expansion of its spacecraft production facilities in Texas, with EXIM's board poised to vote on the financing. The facility carries a 12-month availability period and a 10-year repayment term and is expected to create about 200 jobs, part of an EXIM initiative to help U.S. firms compete globally in AI, space, and other high-tech sectors.

On June 25, 2026 Firefly acquires Space-ng, a developer of AI-powered vision navigation and autonomous guidance software and camera hardware whose technology flew on Blue Ghost Mission 1 — helping detect hazardous lunar terrain and autonomously redirect the lander to a safe touchdown in Mare Crisium. The capability will support Firefly's Blue Ghost landers and Elytra orbital vehicles and be offered to government and commercial customers under the Firefly brand; Space-ng co-founder Ethan Rublee joins as chief engineer of software. Financial terms were not disclosed.

On June 30, 2026 Firefly and Swedish Space Corporation announced completion of critical milestones toward orbital Alpha launches from Esrange Space Center in Sweden — including the launch control center, payload processing facility and vehicle integration building, with the pad now in final construction. The effort is underpinned by a U.S.-Sweden Technology Safeguards Agreement making Sweden only the sixth country with such a pact; the first orbital launch from Esrange is targeted for 2028.

On June 30, 2026 NASA awards Firefly a $144M Commercial Lunar Payload Services task order for an accelerated Blue Ghost mission — the company's sixth contracted lunar mission — targeting a 2028 launch. Firefly says it will design, build and deliver the mission in about two years, roughly half the time of Blue Ghost Mission 1, by leveraging its proven build-to-print lander and flight data from its first successful landing, supporting a shift from one annual Moon landing to multiple missions per year.

On July 7, 2026 Firefly announced a $13M subcontract from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to manufacture, test, and deliver the aeroshell for NASA's SkyFall mission to Mars, targeted to launch in late 2028. SkyFall will deploy three heritage Mars helicopters via a mid-air 'SkyFall Maneuver' entry capsule to demonstrate airborne subsurface mapping and resource prospecting. Firefly will qualify and flight-accept the aeroshell at its Rocket Ranch before delivering it to JPL — the first award to come out of Firefly's newly opened Gloworks innovation lab, and its first Mars entry-descent-and-landing hardware program.

Northrop Grumman invests $50 million to advance Firefly's medium-lift vehicle, which is officially named Eclipse.

Blue Ghost Mission 1 lands on the Moon and completes more than 14 days of lunar surface operations, setting the longest commercial operations on the Moon to date.

Firefly prices its upsized IPO, begins trading on Nasdaq as FLY, and then closes the SciTec acquisition to add defense software, data processing, and classified mission infrastructure.

Alpha successfully reaches orbit on its second flight, "To The Black," making Firefly operational in the 1,000-kilogram launch class.

Noosphere Ventures acquires assets and relaunches as Firefly Aerospace.

Tom Markusic founds Firefly Space Systems (later Firefly Aerospace).