---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-211266"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "FLY"
cik: "0001860160"
company_name: "Firefly Aerospace Inc."
filed_at: "2025-09-22T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T06:00:22.394231+00:00"
event_type: "earnings"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.65
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
confidence: "medium"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Firefly Aerospace guides FY2025 rev $133M-$145M, backlog $1.3B after IPO

## Summary
- Full-year 2025 revenue expected between $133M and $145M.
- Backlog reached ~$1.3B as of July 2025, driven by $176.7M NASA Blue Ghost Mission 4 contract.
- IPO net proceeds of $933.1M; Northrop Grumman invested $50M in preferred equity.
- FAA cleared Alpha for return to flight on August 26, 2025; 95 Miranda engine hot fire tests completed.
- CEO Jason Kim testified before Congress; Sweden signed Technology Safeguards Agreement for launches.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-211266
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: FLY
- cik: 0001860160
- company_name: Firefly Aerospace Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-09-22T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: earnings
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.65
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
- confidence: medium
- sec_items: 2.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1860160/000119312525211266/0001193125-25-211266-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1860160/000119312525211266/fly-20250922.htm

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