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Firefly Aerospace

Active Launch Private HQ: Cedar Park, Texas Founded 2017

Small launch (Alpha) and lunar lander (Blue Ghost). Blue Ghost completed first fully successful commercial lunar soft landing (March 2025). Eclipse medium-lift in development. IPO'd August 2025.

40.0
ARI Composite
Very High Risk
#18 of 22
Peer Rank
Launch cohort
7
Total Launches
As lead operator
Estimated valuation
Not disclosed

FINANCIAL HEALTH

40.0
ARI composite · Very High Risk
Peer rank#18 of 22
Peer groupLaunch
Data coverage100%
Tracked gov contracts$4.5M across 1 awards

FLEET COMPOSITION

Every vehicle this operator has flown. Linked profiles carry the full reliability + reuse + subsystem record.

Vehicle Class Launches Success rate Reuse
Alpha Small 7 42.9% Expendable Profile →

RECENT LAUNCHES

Date Mission Vehicle Orbit Outcome
Mar 12, 2026 LM-400 TDS Alpha Success
Jan 01, 2025 LM-400 TDS Alpha Failure Briefing →
Jul 04, 2024 SOC-i Alpha Success
Dec 22, 2023 Tyvak-1015 Alpha Failure
Sep 15, 2023 VICTUS NOX Alpha Success
Oct 01, 2022 Serenity Alpha Partial
Sep 03, 2021 BSS 1 Alpha Failure

SECTOR POSITION

Primary sectorLaunch
Rank within sector#18 of 22
Tracked peers22
Secondary sectors

RECENT COVERAGE

Date Source Headline
May 29, 2026 Spaceflight Now SpaceX launches 29 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral
May 27, 2026 NASASpaceFlight Rovers and Drones laying the foundations for NASA Moon Base
May 27, 2026 Spaceflight Now NASA outlines nearly $1 billion investment into initial Moon Base missions
May 22, 2026 Ars Technica — Space Rocket Report: Starship launch delayed, German launch company may aid Canada
May 08, 2026 Ars Technica — Space Rocket Report: Alpha Block 2 coming this summer; Falcon sets booster landing mark

REGISTRY DATA

Legal nameFirefly Aerospace, Inc.
OwnershipPrivate
HeadquartersCedar Park, Texas
CountryUS
Founded2017
FounderTom Markusic
CEOJason Kim
AliasesFirefly, Firefly Aerospace
SubsidiariesSpaceflight Inc.
Key programsAlpha, Eclipse, Blue Ghost
Gov customersNASA, DoD, Space Force
IPO statusPrivate

Source: space_company_registry.json · Operator homepage → · NASA CLPS providers page lists Firefly Aerospace as a CLPS vendor pool member with two task orders, including Blue Ghost Mission 1 (which per the same NASA source achieved the first fully successful c

METHODOLOGY

Launch history and subsystem outcomes aggregate from AstraVeris's launch_events table with Wilson 95% lower bounds on success rates. ARI scores come from the 11-factor composite (/finance/methodology/). Constellation counts derive from the live CelesTrak/GCAT object catalog. Gov contracts from USAspending.gov awards; private deals from deduplicated pipeline deal extraction. Absence of a row means "not tracked" — we never fabricate. See /methodology/ for the full data model and /data-licensing/ for licensing terms.

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