{"city":"Cedar Park","name":"Firefly Aerospace","slug":"firefly-aerospace","facts":[{"date":"2028-01-01","type":"revenue_band","value":"[object Object]","source":"SpaceNews"},{"date":"2028-01-01","type":"headcount","value":"1418","source":"SpaceNews"},{"date":"2028-01-01","type":"funding_round","value":"Public company, NASDAQ FLY, IPO August 2025","source":"SpaceNews"},{"date":"2028-01-01","type":"deployment","value":"Deliver rovers on Blue Moon Mark 1 landers under CLPS task order and transport MoonFall spacecraft to the Moon","source":"SpaceNews"},{"date":"2028-01-01","type":"deployment","value":"Deliver rovers on Blue Moon Mark 1 landers under a CLPS task order and transport MoonFall spacecraft to the Moon","source":"SpaceNews"},{"date":"2028-01-01","type":"deployment","value":"Deliver rovers on Blue Moon Mark 1 landers under a CLPS task order and transport MoonFall drone-like spacecraft to the Moon","source":"SpaceNews"}],"peers":[{"name":"Intuitive Machines","rank":15,"slug":"intuitive-machines","score":"82"},{"name":"Lunar Outpost","rank":53,"slug":"lunar-outpost","score":"72.5"},{"name":"Astrolab","rank":71,"slug":"astrolab","score":"68"},{"name":"Astrobotic","rank":73,"slug":"astrobotic","score":"67.5"}],"stage":"Public","state":"Texas","aliases":["Firefly Aerospace","Blue Ghost"],"country":"United States","domains":[{"why":"Firefly operates the Alpha launch vehicle and is planning recurring launches from Wallops and Esrange, including two contracted Alpha launches in 2028.","list":"Space 100","rank":13,"tier":"member","layer":"Planetary economy","total":83,"domain":"Space","scores":{"leverage":6,"position":8,"progress":10,"firepower":9,"commercial":8,"deployment":10,"production":6,"technology":8},"edition":"November 2026","segment":"Landers, rovers & surface transport"}],"founded":2017,"signals":[{"date":"2026-10-22","header":"Firefly Aerospace completed a key design review for NASA’s four-drone Moon mission.","outlet":"Interesting Engineering"},{"date":"2026-10-07","header":"Mission Control Space Services will supply Rashid Rover 2’s lunar communications link.","outlet":"SpaceQ"},{"date":"2026-09-09","header":"SSC Space and Firefly Aerospace completed key infrastructure for Alpha launches at Esrange and advanced to final pad construction.","outlet":"SSC Space"},{"date":"2026-09-09","header":"SSC Space and Firefly Aerospace signed an agreement for two Alpha launches from Esrange in 2028.","outlet":"SSC Space"},{"date":"2026-09-09","header":"Firefly Aerospace and SSC Space completed major infrastructure for Alpha launches at Esrange’s Launch Complex 3C.","outlet":"Firefly Aerospace"},{"date":"2026-09-09","header":"Firefly Aerospace and SSC Space signed an agreement for two Alpha launches from Sweden’s Esrange Space Center.","outlet":"Firefly Aerospace"}],"website":"https://fireflyspace.com","category":"Space · Launch","categories":[{"name":"Small launch","domain":"Space","parent":"Space · Launch"}],"last_round":null,"updated_at":"2026-10-23T10:00:53.293+00:00","facts_total":1592,"positioning":"Firefly Aerospace is a US launch and lunar company (Nasdaq:FLY) whose Blue Ghost Mission 1 was the first fully successful commercial lunar landing (March 2025), now executing five lunar missions in parallel plus the Alpha launch vehicle and Elytra spacecraft line, with FY26 guidance of $420-450M and a record $1.5B backlog. It posted the strongest space Q2 of the season (Q2-26 revenue of $117.7M, +659% YoY, its first >$100M quarter), made an $855M SciTec acquisition (national-security software) plus a Space-ng acquisition, and won NASA, Air Force, and Golden Dome-related work with an NVIDIA collaboration. Its revenue mix is shifting to recurring spacecraft milestones.","sub_category":"Small launch","signals_total":437,"url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/firefly-aerospace","title":"Firefly Aerospace · space, Cedar Park, Texas, United States · scores, facts and signals · Frontier Tech Intelligence","description":"Firefly operates the Alpha launch vehicle and is planning recurring launches from Wallops and Esrange, including two contracted Alpha launches in 2028. Space 100 rank 13 (score 83) 437 signals and 1592 facts with sources.","publisher":"Frontier Tech Intelligence (Future Frontiers, a trade name of Essential Cognition Inc.)","note":"Assessment by Frontier Tech Intelligence; facts and signals carry their sources."}