Second Quarter 2026
Filed Aug 11, 2026Firefly Aerospace Announces Second Quarter 2026 Financial Results With Record Revenue Of $117.7 Million, Up 659% Year-Over-Year
Firefly reported record revenue of $117.7 million, stated to be up 659% year-over-year and 45.5% from the prior quarter, while securing multiple lunar, defense, and Mars-related awards and maintaining full-year revenue guidance of $420 million to $450 million.
Key metrics
as reported| Metric | Value | q/q | y/y |
|---|---|---|---|
| RevenueGAAP | $117.7 million | up 45.5% from the prior quarter | up 659% year-over-year |
2026 full-year outlook
- Revenuebetween $420 million and $450 million
What drove it
- Awarded a $144 million NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) contract for a rapid Blue Ghost lander mission to the Moon.
- Awarded a $75 million subcontract from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to support NASA's MoonFall mission, utilizing an Elytra spacecraft.
- Awarded a U.S. Air Force contract option worth $5.5 million for SciTec to deliver the operational data fusion system for the Cloud-Based Command and Control (CBC2) program.
- Acquired Space-ng, bringing AI-powered vision navigation and autonomous guidance systems, spacecraft software, and camera hardware for Blue Ghost landers and Elytra orbital vehicles.
- Awarded Firefly's first Mars mission, with a $13 million subcontract to support the SkyFall mission for NASA JPL.
- Awarded a $94 million Space Force contract under the Ground-Based Radar Digitization program.
- Signed an extension to Lockheed Martin's multi-launch agreement for Alpha flights for up to 25 launches through 2031 using the Block II configuration.
- Expanded campus with a new headquarters, more than quadrupled spacecraft cleanroom space, added on-site workstations for Alpha and Eclipse manufacturing, and established a new Gloworks innovation lab.
Concerns
- The release identifies risks related to achieving and maintaining profitability.
- The release identifies potential delayed or failed launches and failure of launch vehicles and spacecraft to operate as intended.
- The release identifies manufacturing, regulatory, government-funding, customer-concentration, vendor, macroeconomic, tariff, information-security, and acquisition-integration risks.
- The release identifies risk that Firefly may be unable to operate Alpha at its anticipated launch rate or finalize the development and delivery of Eclipse.
- The filing excerpt does not include the supplemental financial data and reconciliations referenced in the release.
What to watch
- Execution of the $144 million NASA CLPS Blue Ghost mission and the $75 million NASA JPL MoonFall subcontract.
- Production and design progress for Blue Ghost's Gruithuisen Domes and South Pole missions.
- Integration of Space-ng's autonomous navigation, guidance, software, and camera capabilities into Blue Ghost and Elytra.
- Progress toward Alpha launches from Sweden's Esrange Space Center and development of the offshore Alpha launch platform with Seagate Space.
- Eclipse Miranda engine maturation following more than 150 hot fire tests to date, including a 226-second flight-like Mission Duty Cycle test.
- Delivery against the 2026 full-year revenue outlook of between $420 million and $450 million.
Balance sheet and cash flow
- Completed underwritten public offering of common stock generating net proceeds of $181.6 million, to use for expanding core business growth and execution of recently awarded contracts.
Analysis
Firefly reported record revenue of $117.7 million for the second quarter ended June 30, 2026. The release describes revenue as up 659% year-over-year and up 45.5% from the prior quarter, framing the period as a substantial acceleration in reported top-line activity. The filing excerpt does not provide the underlying prior-year or prior-quarter revenue amounts, nor does it include revenue by program or segment.
Demand indicators in the release were concentrated in lunar, defense, and autonomous-space operations. Firefly highlighted a $144 million NASA CLPS contract for a rapid Blue Ghost lunar mission, a $75 million NASA JPL MoonFall subcontract using an Elytra spacecraft, a $94 million Space Force Ground-Based Radar Digitization contract, and a $13 million SkyFall subcontract for its first Mars mission. The company also cited an extension of Lockheed Martin's Alpha agreement for up to 25 launches through 2031.
The quarter also featured capacity and capability investments. Firefly acquired Space-ng to add AI-powered vision navigation, autonomous guidance systems, spacecraft software, and camera hardware. It expanded its campus, more than quadrupled spacecraft cleanroom space, added Alpha and Eclipse manufacturing workstations, and established the Gloworks innovation lab. The company also completed an underwritten public offering that generated net proceeds of $181.6 million for core-business growth and execution of recently awarded contracts.
Operationally, Firefly cited completed design milestones for Blue Ghost missions, critical milestones for Alpha operations from Esrange Space Center, and continued Eclipse engine testing. These developments place attention on whether manufacturing scale, launch readiness, and program execution can support the growing set of lunar, defense, and launch commitments described in the release.
For 2026, Firefly expects full-year revenue to be between $420 million and $450 million. The filing excerpt provides no gross-margin, operating-expense, tax-rate, profitability, cash-flow, cash-balance, debt-balance, or earnings-per-share figures. Accordingly, the available read is centered on record reported revenue, contract activity, investment in capacity and technology, and execution against the stated full-year revenue outlook rather than on margins or cash generation.
Management, verbatim
Breaking the $100 million mark with another quarterly revenue record demonstrates Firefly's amplified growth. With more than a half dozen contract wins during the second quarter, we are matching execution to rocket, spacecraft, and software orders across our programs.
Jason Kim, CEO of Firefly Aerospace
Firefly is leading the way in unlocking the lunar opportunity, with another two Moon missions added to our manifest during the second quarter.
Jason Kim, CEO of Firefly Aerospace
We're also going beyond the Moon to Mars as we support the cutting-edge SkyFall mission for NASA. Our recent campus expansion allows us to meet the growing demand behind both Blue Ghost and Elytra for exploration and national security missions, while also meeting the growing demand for orbital launch vehicles.
Jason Kim, CEO of Firefly Aerospace
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