Firefly Aerospace is a Texas-based private aerospace company that provides end-to-end space transportation services. It specializes in the development of small to medium-lift launch vehicles like the Alpha rocket and lunar landers such as Blue Ghost, along with on-orbit services using its Elytra space tug. Firefly works with partners like NASA and ESA, securing contracts for commercial lunar payload services and missions to the far side of the Moon. The company aims to provide affordable and reliable space access for government and commercial customers, contributing to lunar and cislunar exploration.
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Firefly Aerospace’s Alpha launch vehicle is providing launch services for the Blue Ghost mission and the company’s Space Utility Vehicle will provide in-space mobility.
Firefly Aerospace was part of the original group of nine companies selected by NASA in November 2018 to be eligible to compete for CLPS awards.
Israel Aerospace Industries will support Firefly’s Blue Ghost project to leverage lessons learned from the Beresheet mission, which crashed attempting a lunar landing in April 2019.
Firefly Aerospace intends to greatly expand its business development and government relations team in Washington, D.C.
Firefly Aerospace received a $93,300,000 NASA award to deliver a suite of ten NASA-sponsored science and technology demonstration payloads to Mare Crisium in the Moon’s Crisium basin.
Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lunar lander will deliver the ten NASA-sponsored payloads to the lunar surface in 2023 under Commercial Lunar Payload Services task order 19D managed by NASA’s Science Mission Directorate.
NASA awarded Firefly Aerospace $93,300,000 to deliver a suite of ten NASA-sponsored science and technology demonstration payloads to Mare Crisium in the Moon’s Crisium basin.
NASA selected Firefly Aerospace to deliver a set of 10 research payloads to the moon in 2023 under Commercial Lunar Payload Services Task Order 19D.
Firefly Aerospace’s leadership projects growing the company from an estimated $1,000,000,000 valuation during early Alpha and SUV operations to approximately $10,000,000,000 within about five years.
Firefly Aerospace is seeking to raise $350,000,000 to scale up production and develop larger launch vehicles.
Firefly Aerospace plans the first launch of its larger medium-class vehicle by early 2024.
Firefly Space Systems filed for bankruptcy in 2016 and was bought out of bankruptcy by entrepreneur Max Polyakov and his investment fund Noosphere Ventures.
Firefly Aerospace is seeking to raise $350,000,000 to scale up production and develop a medium-class launch vehicle called Beta.
Firefly Aerospace scheduled its Alpha launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California for a date described as occurring a few short weeks after 2021-01-26.
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In October 2019 the Space Force office selected several small launch providers to compete for task orders over nine years, including Virgin Orbit, Xbow Launch Systems, Firefly Aerospace, and Aevum Launch.
NASA awarded contracts to Astra Space, Firefly Aerospace, and Relativity Space for the Venture Class Launch Services (VCLS) Demo 2 program on 2020-12-11.
The combined value of the VCLS Demo 2 contracts awarded to Astra Space, Firefly Aerospace, and Relativity Space is $16,700,000.