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Firefly Aerospace

Texas company that flies the small Alpha rocket and made the first fully successful commercial Moon landing in 2025 with its Blue Ghost lander. It is also building a bigger reusable rocket, Eclipse, with Northrop Grumman.

Products, by altitude

The Moon · 384,400 km from Earth

  • In service

    Blue Ghost

    Robotic lander that delivers payloads to the Moon

Earth to Moon · 35,786–384,400 km

  • In development

    Elytra

    Space tug that moves payloads to their final orbit

Launch · From the pad to orbit

  • In service

    Alpha

    Small rocket that carries satellites to low orbit

  • In development

    Eclipse

    Reusable medium rocket for about 16 tonnes to orbit

Known rounds

DateRoundAmount
May 2026Follow-on public offering (company shares)$192M⁠1

Milestones

  • Aug 2026 Reported Q2 2026 awards including a $144 million NASA CLPS lander mission and a $75 million JPL subcontract to fly NASA's MoonFall drones on Elytra.⁠2
  • Mar 2026 Alpha returned to flight and reached orbit from Vandenberg on its seventh launch, after two mishaps in 2025.⁠3
  • Aug 2025 Listed on Nasdaq under the ticker FLY; the IPO completed on August 8, 2025.⁠1
  • Mar 2025 Blue Ghost Mission 1 landed in Mare Crisium, the first fully successful commercial soft landing on the Moon.⁠4

Sources

  1. Firefly Aerospace prospectus (Form 424B4) via SEC EDGARJun 1, 2026
  2. Firefly Aerospace press release via SEC EDGAR (Form 8-K)Aug 11, 2026
  3. AIAAMar 12, 2026
  4. SatNewsApr 9, 2026
  5. Firefly Aerospace

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