Firefly Aerospace Doubles Cedar Park Campus to 144,000 Sq Ft and Adds Gloworks Lab with 30,000-Sq-Ft Rocket Ranch Expansion
Firefly Aerospace doubled Cedar Park, Texas facilities to 144,000 square feet, adding a cleanroom fourfold larger to support assembly of Blue Ghost lunar landers and Elytra vehicles. It added a 30,000-sq-ft Rocket Ranch expansion and Gloworks lab with 3D printers, composite fabrication and milling machines to accelerate spacecraft R&D.
1. Campus Expansion
Firefly Aerospace has expanded its Cedar Park, Texas headquarters with two new buildings, bringing total campus size to 144,000 square feet. This doubles the footprint of its previous facilities to centralize spacecraft assembly, testing, avionics production and mission control under one roof.
2. Cleanroom and Assembly Lines
A new cleanroom four times larger than the former space enables dedicated production lines for Blue Ghost lunar landers and Elytra orbital vehicles. The increased capacity supports multiple lunar missions per year, aligning with NASA’s Moon Base initiative and commercial lunar economy demand.
3. Rocket Ranch Upgrades
At its 200-acre Rocket Ranch in Briggs, Texas, Firefly added two mezzanines for an extra 30,000 square feet of engineering and manufacturing workspace. Enhancements to the Eclipse engine test stand and Alpha stage test stand boost testing cadence and ground system reliability.
4. Gloworks Innovation Lab
The Gloworks lab features advanced machinery including 3D and titanium printers, plasma cutters, composite fabrication tools and automated milling equipment. This emergent-work lab focuses on propulsion, carbon composites, robotics and deorbit technologies to drive future spacecraft innovations.