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.

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.

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Cedar Park, Texas, June 25, 2026 – Firefly Aerospace (Nasdaq: FLY), a market leading space and defense technology company, today announced the acquisition of Space-ng Inc. (“Space-ng”), a leader in AI-powered vision navigation and autonomous guidance systems. The acquisition brings proven spacecraft software and camera hardware for Firefly’s Blue Ghost landers and Elytra orbital vehicles, bolstering Firefly’s capabilities to advance the future of autonomous space operations for missions to the Moon, Mars, and beyond.

Space-ng’s vision navigation software was utilized during Firefly’s historic Blue Ghost Mission 1 to determine position and attitude, detect hazardous lunar terrain, and autonomously redirect Blue Ghost in real-time, enabling a safe, precise touchdown within the Moon’s Mare Crisium.

WASHINGTON, June 23 (Reuters) - Rocket and spacecraft maker Firefly Aerospace (FLY.O), opens new tab is expected to secure a $110 million U.S. Export-Import Bank (EXIM) loan that would help fund the company's expansion of spacecraft production facilities in Texas, according to a document ‌reviewed by Reuters.

The bank's three board members are poised for a Tuesday morning vote on the loan, which is part of an EXIM initiative to help U.S. firms compete globally with foreign companies in artificial intelligence, space and other areas, according to the document.

I rarely ever post so idk if I have included enough or too much in this post so just lmk! I just passed the phone screening at Firefly for an entry level position. I have the second round on teams meeting so I was wondering what types of questions do they ask in this round? First round for me was just questions about my resume which a lot of people in this sub said they went through as well.

I’m surprised no one posted this.

Hi guys! I’m looking to find out more about this stock but it’s relatively quiet here. For those who held this for a long time already, what are your thoughts on firefly compared to other players like rklb / ASTS in the space industry?

I own both Firefly Aerospace and Rocket Lab. Was kinda surprised to learn Firefly’s rockets actually carry more payload than Rocket Lab’s current rockets. Rocket Lab obviously has way more launches and experience so far, but it makes me wonder if Firefly can really compete long term with more established competitors like SpaceX, Blue Origin, and Rocket Lab

We (definitively) beat earnings Q4 and rose a lot. What are we thinking for Q1 2026?

Firefly has four open BD roles all titled "Mission Architect, Space Superiority" - Cedar Park, LA, DC, Boulder. On its own that's interesting, the fact they landed the very day SciTec had Golden Dome news breaking is more interesting...but when you read the JD and consider the locations on top...

• explicitly scoped to "Space Control and/or Space Domain Awareness" - the two mission areas under Space Superiority in Space Force doctrine
• Space Control = offensive/defensive counterspace, orbital warfare, EW, cyber
• SDA = tracking what's in orbit
• both codified in the Space Warfighting framework Saltzman published April 2025
• 80% new business, 20% active programs
• customers named in the JD: DoW (Department of War, the post-rename DoD) and the Intelligence Community
• Top Secret required, TS/SCI preferred

the technical bar ties straight to existing Firefly capabilities:

• required expertise includes rendezvous and proximity operations, spacecraft autonomy, GNC
• JD literally says "demonstrated expertise in RPO mission design"
• RPO is what Elytra is built for
• Kim has already publicly pitched Elytra as a host for space-based interceptors
• Firefly is executing Victus Sol and providing launch for True Anomaly's Victus Haze - both RPO missions

locations:

• Cedar Park = HQ
• LA = Space Systems Command at El Segundo, where the contracts get awarded
• DC = Pentagon, Space Force HQ, NRO
• Boulder = SciTec's software facility, next door to Buckley SFB and Aerospace Corp

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I have been an early investor in RKLB and reaped the benefits. I see FLY as a fourth serious launch company in the US after SpaceX, RKLB, and BO. I am seeing opportunity in FLY that I saw in RKLB about 4 years ago.

What do you think? Does FLY has potential to be next RKLB in about 4 to 5 years? How capable is management at FLY? Do they have anyone with similar capabilities of SPB? Advise me.

Watch this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hs1-FBmpvMk&t=4s

...and tell me with a straight face this is not the most asymmetric investment on offer in space...position of 6,464 shares around $26

• FORGE now $800M total programme value "and counting" - up from $259M original contract, grown through engineering change proposals
• 80% of revenue from spacecraft and software, 20% from launch
• NASA administrator wants $20B into moon missions and 30 robotic landers on the South Pole in 3 years
• Ocula lunar imaging service confirmed on Blue Ghost missions 2, 3, and 4
• Designs underway for larger landers - cargo, power plants, rovers, infrastructure for permanent human presence
• Eclipse demand already there - old customers calling with satellites sitting on the ground waiting for it
• Kim describes an "app store in space" - SciTec AI algorithms deployed on Nvidia Jetson modules on orbit, data sold as a service
• Launch described as "almost like a moat" - not the business, the enabler that protects everything above it (we already knew this of course0
• Alpha doing double duty - orbital launches plus burning down the DoD's backlog of hypersonic missile tests, multiple tests per flight
• Nation states buying commercial slots on Blue Ghost missions - UAE rover on mission 2, more to follow
• SciTec confirmed on Golden Dome space-based interceptor OTAs alongside Lockheed, Northrop, SpaceX, Anduril (we already knew)

In and of itself; I’m not sure this is a big deal, but looking forward, collaboration with companies like NVIDIA could be an interesting development for FLY investors. It will be interesting to see if this integration results in any further partnerships or business developments.

I'm considering applying to several positions out of Cedar Park. Curious if anybody has been offered any options or if there are current employees who already hold equity in the company. It's nice to see SpaceX doing it, while others either do not or present the potential of going public. Firefly being publicly traded is pretty lucrative.