Firefly Aerospace Wins $75 Million NASA JPL Subcontract to Deliver Drones to Moon's South Pole for MoonFall Mission

Firefly Aerospace (Nasdaq: FLY), a market leading space and defense technology company, today announced it was awarded a $75 million subcontract from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to deliver four drones to the Moon's south pole in support of the agency's MoonFall mission.

MoonFall is part of the first phase of NASA's Moon Base, a long-term lunar exploration and infrastructure initiative designed to enable sustained human presence and expanded scientific and commercial activity at the lunar south pole.

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