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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NASA selected Firefly Aerospace to build the spacecraft that will carry four drones from Earth orbit to the Moon for the MoonFall mission, which is planned for 2028.
The Space Force plans to use the requested funding to modernize launch facilities in Florida and California for government launches by Firefly Aerospace, Stoke, and Relativity.
Firefly Aerospace’s Cedar Park site is optimized to manufacture multiple Blue Ghost lunar landers and Elytra orbital transfer vehicles simultaneously.
Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost architecture is being templated into a standardized production line capable of supporting multiple lunar missions per year.
The Cedar Park expansion doubled the physical square footage of Firefly Aerospace’s spacecraft division.
Firefly Aerospace commissioned a dedicated emergent-work facility named Gloworks at the Cedar Park campus.
Firefly Aerospace’s Cedar Park campus expansion added two new facilities to the company’s existing footprint.
Firefly Aerospace’s expanded cleanroom supports parallel, high-rate assembly lines.
Firefly Aerospace’s expanded Cedar Park campus encompasses 144,000 square feet dedicated to spacecraft assembly, integrated environmental testing, avionics manufacturing, and engineering operations.
Firefly Aerospace added 30,000 square feet of internal engineering mezzanines to the Rocket Ranch facility.
Firefly Aerospace modified the Eclipse engine test stand to accommodate multiple engines simultaneously.
Firefly Aerospace’s Texas expansion is intended to deepen vertical integration across engineering, testing, and production.
Firefly Aerospace built a cleanroom at the Cedar Park campus that is four times larger than its previous workspace.
Firefly Aerospace’s centralized Texas operations are intended to compress delivery timelines for national security and civil space customers.
Firefly Aerospace upgraded the Alpha launch vehicle stage test stand with ground system and fluid handling improvements.
Gloworks serves as an internal technology incubator for Firefly Aerospace engineers.
Firefly Aerospace’s Rocket Ranch now has a total launch vehicle integration footprint of 217,000 square feet.
Firefly Aerospace completed a major corporate campus expansion in Cedar Park, Texas on May 19, 2026.
Firefly Aerospace’s spacecraft division expansion coincides with upgrades at the company’s 200-acre Rocket Ranch launch vehicle production facility in Briggs, Texas.
NASA spent an additional $10 million in September to purchase 120 gigabytes of data from Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1.