U.S. defense contractor Northrop Grumman has invested $50 million into space startup Firefly Aerospace to aid the production ...

Just a few years ago, the company that coined the Firefly name was one of a series of space start-ups that were going bankrupt. Today, Firefly Aerospace is a $1 billion "unicorn" private space ...

A Firefly Alpha rocket launched the Victus Nox mission for the U.S. Space Force Sept. 14, 2023, from Space Launch Complex 2 West at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. Credit: Firefly ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Kennedy Space Center carrying Firefly's Blue Ghost Mission 1 to the moon for NASA. Within about an hour, Blue Ghost separated from the Falcon 9 rocket on an ...

Firefly launched Blue Ghost on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on January 15. When Blue Ghost reaches the moon, it will stay in a lunar orbit for 16 days before ...

Firefly Aerospace (@Firefly_Space) February 18, 2025 In an update shared on X, Texas-based Firefly said the spacecraft completed another lunar orbit maneuver with a 3 minute, 18 second burn early ...

Texas-based space company Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander has become the second private spacecraft in history to softly touch down on the Moon's surface. Firefly's car-sized lander touched ...

UPDATE (Tuesday 3:45 p.m.) - Firefly Aerospace is standing down from its second launch attempt this week from Vandenberg Space Force Base. The Aerospace company says this will allow the team "more ...

A lunar lander has completed its two-week mission and sent spectacular sunset images as a "final goodbye" back to Earth. The Blue Ghost Mission 1 lander was launched by Firefly Aerospace in mid ...