Firefly Aerospace

FLY

Market cap $7.45B

CEDAR PARK, Texas, May 28, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Firefly Aerospace (Nasdaq: FLY), a market leading space and defense technology company, today announced the pricing of its public offering of 4,000,000 shares of its common stock and 8,000,000 shares of common stock by certain selling stockholders (the “Offering”) at a public offering price of $48.00 per share. In addition, the selling stockholders have granted the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 1,800,000 shares of common stock at the public offering price, less underwriting discounts and commissions. The Offering is expected to close on June 1, 2026, subject to customary closing conditions.

The space rally continues ahead of the upcoming SpaceX IPO. Meanwhile, SpaceX won a $2.3 billion contract, and Firefly landed a NASA award.

Firefly Aerospace is selling 4 million shares, and has a deal to help NASA prepare for its permanent presence on the moon.

NASA awarded contracts to space firms including Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin and Astrolab to ​send robotic landers, rovers and drones to ‌support the upcoming lunar exploration missions.

CEDAR PARK, Texas, May 26, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Firefly Aerospace (Nasdaq: FLY), a market leading space and defense technology company, today announced the commencement of a public offering of its common stock by Firefly and certain selling stockholders (the “Offering”). Firefly is offering 4,000,000 shares of common stock and the selling stockholders are offering 8,000,000 shares of common stock pursuant to a registration statement on Form S-1 (the “Registration Statement”) filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”). The selling stockholders intend to grant the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 1,800,000 shares of common stock at the public offering price, less underwriting discounts and commissions. The Offering is subject to market and other conditions, and there can be no assurance as to whether or when the offering may be completed. Firefly intends to use the net proceeds from the Offering for general corporate purposes, including to support growth of core business and recently awarded programs and initiatives. Firefly will not receive any of the proceeds from the sale of shares by the selling stockholders.

Firefly's Elytra spacecraft will deliver four drones above the lunar south pole to support NASA's MoonFall mission and the agency's Moon Base initiatives Firefly's Elytra spacecraft will deliver four drones above the lunar south pole to support NASA's MoonFall mission and the agency's Moon Base initiatives

Firefly Aerospace Inc (NASDAQ:FLY) shares are climbing sharply on Tuesday after last week's successful Starship V3 test flight and the release of SpaceX's massive IPO prospectus.

Shares of Rocket Lab, AST SpaceMobile, and others are soaring again on Tuesday.

European space stocks surged on Thursday, ​buoyed by investor ‌excitement after Elon Musk's SpaceX filed for ​a stock market ​listing, lifting sentiment across ⁠the sector.

New campus doubles the size of Firefly's facilities in Cedar Park, Texas to enable assembly line of lunar landers and orbital vehicles New campus doubles the size of Firefly's facilities in Cedar Park, Texas to enable assembly line of lunar landers and orbital vehicles