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Firefly Aerospace

Active FLY Launch Public 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.

42.7
ARI Composite
Very High Risk
#18 of 30
Peer Rank
Launch cohort
10
Total Launches
As lead operator
FLY
Market cap
NASDAQ

FINANCIAL HEALTH

42.7
ARI composite · Very High Risk
Peer rank#18 of 30
Peer groupLaunch
Data coverage100%
Tracked gov contracts$4.5M across 1 awards

CAPITAL & CREDIT PROFILE

Reported fundamentals from SEC XBRL companyfacts. Derived figures carry their formula in the caption.

$159.9M
Revenue
FY ended 2025-12-31 · filed 2026-03-20 · SEC XBRL
−$298.3M
Net income
FY ended 2025-12-31 · filed 2026-03-20 · SEC XBRL
−$237.5M
EBITDA
FY ended 2025-12-31 · filed 2026-03-20 · SEC XBRL
$793.0M
Cash & equivalents
FY ended 2025-12-31 · filed 2026-03-20 · SEC XBRL

Latest quarter (Q1 ended 2026-03-31, filed 2026-05-04): revenue $80.9M · net income −$96.7M · cash $326.2M — SEC XBRL.

Government capital
$4.5M lifetime tracked obligations across 1 awards — top agency Department of Defense ($4.5M) (strict id-matched; unattributed award rows are excluded). Explore grants →
Source: USAspending.gov award obligations matched to this company. Obligations, not recognized revenue.

SCHEDULE CREDIBILITY

How well this operator historically meets its own projected dates — launch NETs, company-announced roadmap milestones, and forward-dated facility plans. 100 = says what it does. Discount forward guidance accordingly.

INSUFFICIENT HISTORY
SCI · Insufficient history · 4 dated commitments
Behavioral read
insufficient history — 4 dated commitments tracked (score requires ≥5)
Source Events Late (share) Median slip Median slip, late only Sub-score On-time allowance
Roadmap milestones 4 1 (25%) 0 d 331 d 77.3 30 d

WORST SLIPS (RECEIPTS)

Commitment Source Announced Outcome Slip
Firefly IPO on NYSE as FLY (Firefly Programs) open, 331d past target Roadmap milestones 2025-08 still open 331 d and counting

SCI = 100 × Σ(event credit) ÷ N over the trailing 36 months (2023-07-29 → 2026-07-28). Event credit = 1.0 when the commitment met its announced date (launches: net NET slip < 1 day; roadmap milestones & facility plans: within 30 days of the announced target window — month/year-precision targets count the whole period as on-time), else 30 ÷ (30 + days late beyond that allowance). Sources are pooled, so each source weighs by its event count. Sources: launch NET-change log (LL2 ingest, tracked since 2026-04-17; flown launches in coverage + not-yet-flown launches already slipped ≥1 day; cancelled launches excluded), roadmap registry milestones (company-announced targets, verified provenance only; open milestones past target count as late by days-overdue), facility_plans rows with target_date after announced_at (filing-dated rows excluded). Confidence: high ≥20 events, medium ≥8, low ≥5; no score below 5 events. 100 = says what it does.

Window: 2023-07-29 → 2026-07-28 (36 months) · launch NET log live since 2026-04-17

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 →
Firefly Alpha Block 2 3

RECENT LAUNCHES

Date Mission Vehicle Orbit Outcome
Nov 30, 2026 ConnectedCosmos Launch 2 Firefly Alpha Block 2 SSO Delayed
Sep 30, 2026 QuickSounder Firefly Alpha Block 2 SSO Delayed
Sep 30, 2026 VICTUS HAZE Jackal Firefly Alpha Block 2 SSO Delayed
Mar 12, 2026 LM-400 TDS Alpha Success Source ↗
Jan 01, 2025 LM-400 TDS Alpha Failure Source ↗ · Briefing →
Jul 04, 2024 SOC-i Alpha Success Source ↗
Dec 22, 2023 Tyvak-1015 Alpha Failure Source ↗
Sep 15, 2023 VICTUS NOX Alpha Success Source ↗
Oct 01, 2022 Serenity Alpha Partial Source ↗
Sep 03, 2021 BSS 1 Alpha Failure Source ↗

RECENT DEALS & CONTRACTS

Date Type Amount Counterparty Significance
Jun 30, 2026 Contract Award $21.5M Firefly Aerospace, SSC Space High
Jun 26, 2026 M And A Firefly Aerospace, Space-ng High

Full deal history →

SECTOR POSITION

Primary sectorLaunch
Rank within sector#18 of 30
Tracked peers30
Secondary sectors

RECENT COVERAGE

REGISTRY DATA

Legal nameFirefly Aerospace, Inc.
Ticker / ExchangeFLY (NASDAQ)
OwnershipPublic
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 statusIPO August 2025

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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