Firefly Aerospace Inc. FLY

What this company does

Firefly provides Launch and Spacecraft Solutions platforms, offering the Alpha and Eclipse launch vehicles and the Blue Ghost and Elytra spacecraft, along with software and sensor offerings added through its acquisition of SciTec. As of December 31, 2025, it had 1,409 full-time employees and nine part-time employees. Its corporate headquarters and two primary facilities, the Rocket Ranch and the Hive, are located just north of Austin, Texas. As of December 31, 2025, it had approximately $1.4 billion in backlog. On October 31, 2025, it completed the acquisition of SciTec, adding software for missile warning, tracking, intelligence and surveillance applications and 470 employees. Its Blue Ghost lander has landed on the Moon and its spacecraft have operated in low earth, medium earth, geostationary and cislunar orbits, while its Elytra platform performs space domain awareness, long-range communications relay and on-orbit missions. It began operations in 2017 and reached orbit with the Alpha rocket in October 2022.

Written from the business description in Firefly Aerospace Inc.'s annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 20 March 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.