Firefly Aerospace ranks 13 on the Space 100 with a score of 83; Lunar Outpost ranks 53 with 73. Firefly Aerospace is ahead on deployment, production, technology, positioning and firepower. Lunar Outpost is ahead on leverage. Level on commercials and progress. Firefly Aerospace is based in Cedar Park, United States, Lunar Outpost in Golden, United States. Firefly Aerospace: Public, founded 2017. Firefly Aerospace is named in 437 signals and Lunar Outpost in 111.
Firefly operates the Alpha launch vehicle and is planning recurring launches from Wallops and Esrange, including two contracted Alpha launches in 2028.
Darker bar: ahead of the other company on that measure.
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.
437 signals name Firefly Aerospace.
1592 facts on file.
Lunar Outpost develops and delivers lunar rovers, including Pegasus, Eagle and MAPP, for NASA and commercial lunar missions.
Darker bar: ahead of the other company on that measure.
Lunar Outpost is a US lunar-rover company whose Pegasus crewed LTV (manual, autonomous, or teleoperated, >14.5 km/h) is the second of two NASA crewed Lunar Terrain Vehicle selections (May 2026, ~$220M; team with General Motors, Goodyear, and Leidos), the redundant-capability procurement. Its MAPP rover flew on IM-2 in 2025 (reaching the surface aboard the lander's off-nominal landing). Revenue is estimated at 10-100m class (the LTV award recognized over performance).
111 signals name Lunar Outpost.
122 facts on file.
Firefly Aerospace ranks 13 on the Space 100 with a score of 83; Lunar Outpost ranks 53 with 73. Firefly Aerospace is ahead on deployment, production, technology, positioning and firepower. Lunar Outpost is ahead on leverage. Level on commercials and progress. Firefly Aerospace is based in Cedar Park, United States, Lunar Outpost in Golden, United States. Firefly Aerospace: Public, founded 2017. Firefly Aerospace is named in 437 signals and Lunar Outpost in 111.
Firefly Aerospace ranks 13 on the Space 100 with a score of 83; Lunar Outpost ranks 53 with 73. Firefly Aerospace is ahead on deployment, production, technology, positioning and firepower. Lunar Outpost is ahead on leverage. Level on commercials and progress. Firefly Aerospace is based in Cedar Park, United States, Lunar Outpost in Golden, United States. Firefly Aerospace: Public, founded 2017. Firefly Aerospace is named in 437 signals and Lunar Outpost in 111. Both company files carry the scores on eight measures, the facts with sources and the latest signals.
Members see every signal and fact behind both companies, the live ranking, the questions the signals answer and the week explained. $99 a month, 7-day trial. What Frontier Tech Intelligence is →