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If you would like to see more articles like this please support our coverage of the space program by becoming a Spaceflight Now Member. If everyone who enjoys our website helps fund it, we can expand and improve our coverage further. Artist’s concept of Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lander. Credit: Firefly Aerospace Firefly Aerospace has selected SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket to launch the company’s first commercial lunar lander mission in 2023 with 10 NASA-sponsored research payloads. The Blue Ghost lander, which Firefly will build at its Texas manufacturing center, will aim for landing...

Firefly's Blue Ghost moon lander will be propelled into space on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. It will carry 10 payloads for NASA.

Cedar Park-based Firefly Aerospace has raised $75 million in funding as the company moves closer to its inaugural rocket launch.  Firefly, which was founded in 2014, is an aerospace company working to develop a group of launch vehicles and in-space services. The company has contracts with multiple commercial and government customers, including NASA and General Atomics. Firefly said it estimates its valuation at more than $1 billion. The funding round was led by DADA Holdings, and included investment from Astera Institute, Canon Ball LLC,  Reuben Brothers Limited, SMS Capital Investment L...

Poliakov's Firefly Aerospace valued at $ 1 bln, first round of investments attracts over $ 175 mln 2 min read Firefly Aerospace Inc., the American rocket and space technology developer, owned by Ukrainian businessman Maksym Poliakov, has completed the first round (A) of venture funding with more than $ 175 million raised (with the planned $ 75 million), the total cost of the company exceeded $ 1 billion. According to Firefly CEO Tom Markusic, the interest of investors during Round A significantly exceeded the initially planned $ 75 million and in order to meet the demand, the main inv...

Raven One Ventures, Firefly said that its seed investor, Noonsphere Ventures, led by Dr. Max Polyakov, sold approximately $100 million of its Firefly holdings to certain Series A participants and other investors through secondary transactions to satisfy demand to participate in the round. Noonsphere Ventures is still the largest investor in Firefly.  Firefly is approaching the first launch of its Alpha small launch vehicle. It has completed acceptance testing for Flight 1, and the vehicle has been fully installed on Firefly’s Vandenberg Air Force Base Space Launch Complex 2 (SLC-2) launc...