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Firefly Aerospace Announces Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2025 Financial Results with Record Annual Revenue Up 163% Year-over-Year
Alpha successfully returned to flight in March, as Firefly enters 2026 with new national security SciTec contracts. "Stairway to Seven" launching from
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[{"type":"text","content":"Alpha successfully returned to flight in March, as Firefly enters 2026 with new national security SciTec contracts.\n \"Stairway to Seven\" launching from Firefly's Space Launch Complex 2 at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on March 11, 2026. CEDAR PARK, Texas, March 19, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Firefly Aerospace (Nasdaq: FLY), a market leading space and defense technology company, today issued financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended December 31, 2025. \"2025 was a transformative year in Firefly's history, as we more than doubled our annual revenue while executing across multiple launch, spacecraft, and ground programs and strengthening our portfolio of space exploration and national security space capabilities,\" said Jason Kim, CEO of Firefly Aerospace. \"Our laser focus on safety, quality, and reliability resulted in the successful return-to-flight of Alpha, delivering a test demo for Lockheed Martin. We progressed flight hardware development and testing for Eclipse's core structures and propulsion systems. We advanced on three Blue Ghost contracts simultaneously for the first time, as well as secured a high performance national security contract for Elytra, and continue completing milestones for the Space Force's FORGE program,\" said Kim. \"Across all our programs, Firefly is lighting the way to a bold space ecosystem that expands humanity's future.\" 2025 Highlights Generated record annual revenue of $159.9 million, an increase of 163% year-over-year.Landed on the Moon with Blue Ghost Mission 1, as the first and only commercial company to do so successfully, and completed 14 days of lunar surface operations, marking the longest commercial operations on the Moon to date.Completed a historic IPO, bolstering Firefly's balance sheet to support long-term growth.Acquired SciTec, beginning a new era of Firefly as a full-service hardware and software company for national security, civil and commercial customers with added artificial intelligence and data center-powered space capabilities.Won the NASA contract award for Blue Ghost Mission 4 to the Moon's south pole, marking back-to-back Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) wins.Assumed a leading role on the U.S. Space Force's Future Operationally Resilient Ground Evolution (FORGE) program through SciTec – with contracts to deliver the Mission Dat...