Firefly Aerospace

Flight record

These are launches under FA’s own name in The Space Devs’ Launch Library. They don’t count missions or payloads. A spacecraft that flew on someone else’s rocket counts for the operator that flew it.

Operator or customer

An operator owns the rocket and runs the count, and the launch schedule filters by operator. A customer pays for the mission, supplies the payload and buys the ride. Some organisations are both. Below, FA is counted in whichever role the current schedule gives it.

No scheduled flight names FA with someone else flying it.

How we count it: a scheduled launch counts as a customer flight when this organisation’s name or abbreviation is in the launch name, mission name or programme, and someone else is flying it. We don’t search mission descriptions, and we only see the schedule as far as it goes, which is 2039-12-31 00:00:00Z. So treat both counts as a minimum.

About FA

Firefly Aerospace is an American private aerospace firm based in Austin, Texas, that develops small and medium-sized launch vehicles for commercial launches to orbit.

Upcoming launches

• Firefly Alpha Block 2 | ConnectedCosmos Launch 1

  Firefly Alpha Block 2 · Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA

  Q4 2026

  TBDNET ±1 QUARTEROrbit: POVehicle file

• Firefly Alpha Block 2 | ConnectedCosmos Launch 2

  Firefly Alpha Block 2 · Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA

  Q4 2026

  TBDNET ±1 QUARTEROrbit: POVehicle file

• Firefly Alpha Block 2 | TacSat

  Firefly Alpha Block 2 · Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA

  2026

  TBDNET YEAR ONLYOrbit: LEOVehicle file

• Firefly Alpha Block 2 | QuickSounder

  Firefly Alpha Block 2 · Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA

  T-··:··:··

  2027-02-15

  TBDNET ±1 DAYOrbit: SSOVehicle file

• Firefly Alpha Block 2 | ConnectedCosmos Launch 3

  Firefly Alpha Block 2 · Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA

  Q1 2027

  TBDNET ±1 QUARTEROrbit: POVehicle file

• Firefly Alpha Block 2 | ConnectedCosmos Launch 4

  Firefly Alpha Block 2 · Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA

  Q2 2027

  TBDNET ±1 QUARTEROrbit: POVehicle file

• Firefly Alpha Block 2 | INCUS

  Firefly Alpha Block 2 · Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA

  2027

  TBDNET YEAR ONLYOrbit: LEOVehicle file

The label on each flight says how exact its launch time is. If the date is only known to the month, you’ll see the month and no countdown. A weather go-probability only shows when Launch Library has one for that flight. EveryLaunch doesn’t work it out.

FA in the archive

From NASA's public image library and Wikimedia Commons. Each photo shows the credit its licence asks for and links back to where it came from.

Common questions

How many launches has Firefly Aerospace flown?

Firefly Aerospace has flown 7 launches under its own name. 4 succeeded and 3 failed. That counts launches it flew itself, not missions or payloads it contributed to.

What is Firefly Aerospace's success rate?

57.1%. That's 4 successful flights out of 7 attempts. Its last 1 launches in a row have succeeded.

When is Firefly Aerospace's next launch?

Firefly Alpha Block 2 | ConnectedCosmos Launch 1, set for Q4 2026 from Space Launch Complex 2W. Launch Library files only the fourth quarter, so the date is a placeholder. Launch times are no-earlier-than targets and can move.

Does Firefly Aerospace fly its own rockets, or buy launches from another operator?

Firefly Aerospace has flown 7 launches under its own name. It's the operator on 7 scheduled flights. An operator owns the rocket and runs the count. A customer pays for the mission, supplies the payload and buys the ride. The operator filter on the launch schedule only lists operators, so a well-known agency can own a mission and still not show up there.

Where is Firefly Aerospace based?

United States of America. Launch Library lists it as a commercial operator, founded in 2014.