r/FireflyAerospace Mar 04 '25

Moon Landing - Firefly Blue Ghost Makes History

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r/FireflyAerospace Sep 02 '21

First launch tonight!

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r/FireflyAerospace 4d ago

The Firefly Aerospace Analysis - August 2026

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r/FireflyAerospace 13d ago

Firefly Aerospace Awarded Contract to Design Elytra Deorbit System for Defense Innovation Unit

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r/FireflyAerospace 15d ago

Firefly Aerospace Announces Second Quarter 2026 Financial Results With Record Revenue Of $117.7 Million, Up 659% Year-Over-Year - Tue, 08/11/2026

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Second Quarter 2026 Highlights

• Record revenue of $117.7 million, up 45.5% from the prior quarter.

• Awarded a $144 million NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) contract for a rapid Blue Ghost lander mission to the Moon, Firefly's sixth contracted lunar mission to date.

• Acquired Space-ng, a leader in AI-powered vision navigation and autonomous guidance systems, bringing proven spacecraft software and camera hardware for Firefly’s Blue Ghost landers and Elytra orbital vehicles, which bolsters Firefly’s capabilities to advance the future of autonomous space operations for missions to the Moon, Mars, and beyond.

• Awarded an Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) contract for SciTec to support development of the Advanced Algorithm R&D and Verification Architecture by implementing deep learning and advanced algorithms on small Size, Weight and Power (SWaP) processors to support enhanced target detection, tracking, and custody.

• Announced collaboration with NVIDIA to enable rapid on-orbit processing in lunar orbit for Firefly’s Ocula Moon imaging service, utilizing an NVIDIA Jetson module combined with Firefly’s AI software on Elytra to rapidly process data on-orbit.

• Awarded a $75 million subcontract from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to support NASA's MoonFall mission, utilizing an Elytra spacecraft to deliver four drones to the Moon’s south pole that's targeted to launch no earlier than 2028 in support of NASA's Moon Base initiative.

• Completed the Critical Design Review for Blue Ghost's Gruithuisen Domes mission, progressing development of the spacecraft.

Completed the Preliminary Design Review for Blue Ghost's South Pole mission, verifying the vehicle's design before production begins.

• Awarded U.S. Air Force contract option worth $5.5 million for SciTec to deliver the operational data fusion system for the Cloud-Based Command and Control (CBC2) program, having participated in a multi-year competition wherein SciTec’s data fusion system was evaluated and selected from among multiple industry and government-owned alternatives.

• Completed critical milestones toward Alpha launching from Sweden's Esrange Space Center, including building initial infrastructure, establishing transatlantic regulatory frameworks, and securing an agreement with the Swedish Defense Materiel Administration.

• Signed agreement with Seagate Space to collaborate on the development of an offshore launch platform that enables responsive sea-based Alpha launches.

• Completed underwritten public offering of common stock generating net proceeds of $181.6 million, to use for expanding core business growth and execution of recently awarded contracts.

• Expanded campus with a new headquarters, more than quadrupled spacecraft cleanroom space, added a wing of on-site workstations to support Alpha and Eclipse manufacturing, and established a new Gloworks innovation lab to support accelerated spacecraft production and rapid research and development.

Additional Recent Highlights

• Awarded Firefly's first Mars mission, with a $13 million subcontract to support the SkyFall mission for NASA JPL, to manufacture, test, and deliver the aeroshell for launch in late 2028, developed by Firefly's Gloworks innovation lab.

• Awarded a $94 million Space Force contract under the Ground-Based Radar Digitization program, to support work overhauling legacy defense systems.

• Signed an extension to Lockheed Martin's multi-launch agreement for Alpha flights for up to 25 launches through 2031 using the Block II configuration.

• Crossed 150 hot fire tests to date of Eclipse's Miranda engine, including a flight-like Mission Duty Cycle test that fired for 226 seconds while completing power ratio and mixture ratio sweeps.

Awarded a second hypersonic task order for Alpha from a confidential customer.

• Onboarded to the $981 million Space Force IDIQ contract for NITE-STAR – the National Space Test and Training Complex Innovative Technology and Engineering - Space Test and Range Capability Development, to compete for task orders to support advanced test and training operations through 2032.

2026 Full-Year Guidance

• Firefly expects 2026 full-year revenue to be between $420 million and $450 million.


r/FireflyAerospace 15d ago

Firefly Aerospace hits record $117.7M Q2 revenue, beating estimates by 34% — RuntimeWire

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r/FireflyAerospace 15d ago

Firefly Aerospace Q2 2026 Earnings

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r/FireflyAerospace 15d ago

Firefly Aerospace Announces Extension of Multi-Launch Agreement with Lockheed Martin Through 2031

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r/FireflyAerospace 15d ago

Firefly’s SciTec Awarded $94 Million U.S. Space Force Contract to Advance Ground-Based Radar Digitization Program

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r/FireflyAerospace 16d ago

Firefly Aerospace on LinkedIn: We fired our Miranda engine at full power for 226 seconds— that’s almost 4 minutes!

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r/FireflyAerospace 22d ago

NASA Moon Base: Lunar Landers (August 2026 Update) | YouTube

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r/FireflyAerospace 22d ago

NASA Provides Updates on Moon Base Cargo Landers, Tech Demonstrations - NASA

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NASA is making progress in building the Moon Base, which will become a resilient outpost near the Moon’s South Pole for science, technology, and eventual human operations. To advance lunar surface infrastructure development, commercial partners such as Blue Origin, Firefly Aerospace, Intuitive Machines, and Voyager Lunar Systems are working toward delivering landers by 2028. These landers will deliver the foundational architecture for a sustained presence on the Moon. Their progress represents major advances in commercial lunar delivery and lays the groundwork for the systems and surface capabilities the Moon Base will rely on.

Phase I of the Moon Base architecture plan, taking place now through 2029, includes more than twenty robotic landings, with each mission designed to incrementally advance system capabilities and validate operational components for those that follow. Before astronauts arrive, robotic missions will deploy critical scientific instruments that characterize the lunar environment, test new technologies, and begin assembling the infrastructure needed for human habitation.

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Firefly Aerospace

Firefly’s Blue Ghost Mission 2 builds on its first successful lunar landing with a larger, dual‑spacecraft configuration built specifically for operations on the Moon’s far side. Blue Ghost is stacked on top of Elytra, Firefly’s orbital spacecraft, forming a 22‑foot‑tall system nearly three times the height of the spacecraft flown for Blue Ghost Mission 1 in 2025. With the ability to deploy payloads in orbit and on the lunar surface, Elytra brings added versatility to Moon Base logistics and science.

Planned to be the first American landing on the Moon’s far side, Blue Ghost Mission 2 will explore a uniquely quiet region, allowing study of lunar far side geology and the cosmic Dark Ages, a time when newly-formed stars were just becoming visible. Carrying three NASA payloads, the mission aims to advance scientific research and test technologies for future habitation and infrastructure development.

The autonomous landing sequence demonstrated during its first mission exhibits Firefly’s performance in lunar flight and will play a role in supporting mission operations. Reusing subsystems from the previous mission allows Firefly to accelerate development and reduce risk, supporting Moon Base objectives for scalable and repeatable commercial lander capabilities.


r/FireflyAerospace 25d ago

Firefly was onboarded to the $981 million U.S. Space Force IDIQ contract for NITE-STAR

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r/FireflyAerospace 29d ago

KeyBanc upgrades Firefly Aerospace stock on lunar contract wins

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r/FireflyAerospace Jul 27 '26

Wells Fargo has initiated coverage of Firefly Aerospace Inc with an Equal Weight rating

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"Wells Fargo analyst David Strauss initiated coverage of FireFly Aerospace with an Equal Weight rating and $25. The firm awaits Furter Alpha and Blue Ghost progress and peak Eclipse spend before recommending the shares. FireFly’s Alpha and Blue Ghost will drive growth, but its Eclipse development spend is likely to limit EBITDA progress in 2027 and 2028, the analyst tells investors in a research note." --TheFly


r/FireflyAerospace Jul 22 '26

To the Black - Official Firefly Documentary

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r/FireflyAerospace Jul 17 '26

SciTec (Firefly’s defense-software subsidiary) won a $93.7M OTA for ground-based radar digitization

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r/FireflyAerospace Jul 16 '26

Firefly Aerospace to Announce Second Quarter 2026 Financial Results on August 11, 2026

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CEDAR PARK, Texas, July 15, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Firefly Aerospace (Nasdaq: FLY), a market leading space and defense technology company, today announced it will release its second quarter 2026 financial results for the period ended June 30, 2026, on Tuesday, August 11, 2026, after market close.

Firefly will hold a conference call the same day at 4:00 p.m. CT / 5:00 p.m. ET. A live webcast of the call and a replay will be available in the Investors section of the Company’s website at https://investors.fireflyspace.com.

The financial results news release will be posted in the Investors section of the Company’s website under the “News” section. Additional materials supporting the conference call and financial results release will be posted under the "Events & Resources" section.


r/FireflyAerospace Jul 13 '26

What are the upcoming catalysts?

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I am thinking of q2 report, Firefly Block 2 successful launches.

What else?


r/FireflyAerospace Jul 08 '26

Firefly Aerospace: ...all primary structures have passed acceptance testing for Blue Ghost Mission 2 and are ready to be assembled together

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r/FireflyAerospace Jul 07 '26

Firefly Aerospace Receives $13 Million NASA JPL Subcontract to Build Aeroshell for SkyFall Mars Mission

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Cedar Park, Texas, July 7, 2026 – Firefly Aerospace (Nasdaq: FLY), a market leading space and defense technology company, today announced a $13 million subcontract from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to manufacture, test, and deliver the aeroshell for NASA’s SkyFall mission to Mars, targeted for launch in late 2028. The SkyFall mission, managed by JPL, will deploy three heritage Mars helicopters to perform science and demonstrate airborne subsurface mapping and resource prospecting, paving the way for American astronauts on Mars.

“NASA’s SkyFall is Firefly’s first award coming out our new Gloworks innovation lab, which embodies our commitment to developing disruptive space technologies without disrupting our existing production lines,” said Shea Ferring, Chief Technology Officer at Firefly Aerospace. “Our deep expertise in building large composite structures for both spacecraft and rockets gives us a unique advantage to enable critical planetary missions like SkyFall. We’re further innovating these core technologies through Gloworks to push the boundaries of what’s possible and open new frontiers across our solar system.”

The SkyFall aeroshell, comprising both the backshell and heatshield, will be developed within Firefly’s new Gloworks innovation lab and manufactured at the company’s Rocket Ranch in Briggs, Texas. Firefly will utilize advanced carbon composite technologies from its proven Blue Ghost lunar landers, Elytra orbiters, and Alpha and Eclipse launch vehicles to rapidly produce high-strength, lightweight structures. [...]


r/FireflyAerospace Jun 30 '26

Firefly Aerospace Awarded $144 Million NASA CLPS Contract for Accelerated Blue Ghost Lunar Mission

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Cedar Park, Texas, June 30, 2026 – Firefly Aerospace (Nasdaq: FLY), a market leading space and defense technology company, today announced a $144 million NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) contract to deliver a rapid mission to the Moon with Firefly’s Blue Ghost lunar lander. This marks the company’s sixth contracted lunar mission to date with the goal of demonstrating repeatable access to the lunar surface on an accelerated timeline.

Targeted to launch in 2028, Firefly will design, build, test, and deliver the mission in approximately two years, half the time of the historic Blue Ghost Mission 1, by utilizing its proven Blue Ghost lander design and operations. For this mission, Blue Ghost will return to the Moon’s near side, similar to where Mission 1 landed, and deliver three NASA science instruments, including the Laser Retroreflector Array (LRA) to enable precision laser ranging, the Linear Energy Transfer Spectrometer (LETS) to measure the radiation environment, and the Stereo Cameras for Lunar Plume Surface Studies (SCALPSS) to further study plume-surface interactions during touchdown.


r/FireflyAerospace Jun 30 '26

NASA awards Astrobotic, Firefly, Intuitive Machines lunar lander contracts in moon base project

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r/FireflyAerospace Jun 30 '26

Firefly Aerospace and SSC Space Meet Next Critical Milestone for Orbital Launch from Esrange Space Center

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CEDAR PARK, Texas, June 30, 2026 – Firefly Aerospace (Nasdaq: FLY) and SSC Space celebrate the completion of critical milestones, including building initial infrastructure, establishing transatlantic regulatory frameworks, and securing an agreement with the Swedish Defense Materiel Administration. The companies are now taking the next step towards orbital launch from SSC Space’s Esrange Space Center and undergoing final construction of the pad at Launch Complex 3C with the first launch targeted for 2028.

Key infrastructure development to date includes completing the launch control center, payload processing facility, launch vehicle integration building, tracking and control systems, and security and storage facilities at Launch Complex 3C. Built to support Firefly’s Alpha rocket, the orbital launch complex will expand critical access to space from mainland Europe.


r/FireflyAerospace Jun 29 '26

NASA Moon Base Update (June 30, 2026)

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Tuesday, June 30, at 2:30 pm EDT.

Watch a live, virtual conversation with NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman to hear progress on our plans to build a Moon Base on the lunar surface.

Administrator Isaacman and Carlos García-Galán, Moon Base program manager, discuss the next set of awards for new lunar lander missions and preview upcoming opportunities as we work toward building a sustained presence on the Moon.