# Who does Firefly Aerospace pay? Who are its key suppliers?
Canonical: https://valuechain.wiki/firefly-aerospace · Facet: suppliers · Updated: 2026-07-12T04:08:55.99+00:00 · Source: ValueChain.wiki (cited money-flow graph)

**Citable summary**: Firefly Aerospace's confirmed suppliers/cost counterparties include SpaceX plus 1 undisclosed/aggregate relationship. Per the valuechain.wiki graph: 2 cost edges, backed by 3 dated sources, 1 of them primary filings (as of 2026-07-12).

### SpaceX (high)  → /spacex.md
- note: The Blue Ghost lunar lander launches on SpaceX Falcon 9 rather than Firefly's own Alpha: Mission 1 lifted off from KSC LC-39A on January 15, 2025, and Mission 2 (late 2026) will also fly on Falcon 9 with the Elytra transfer vehicle. Launch contract values undisclosed.
- [confirms] Firefly Aerospace (EN, ir, published 2025-01-15) https://fireflyspace.com/news/firefly-aerospaces-blue-ghost-mission-1-successfully-launches-and-begins-45-day-transit-to-the-moon/: "Blue Ghost Mission 1, named Ghost Riders in the Sky, launched from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida... The Blue Ghost lunar lander launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, successfully acquired signal, and completed on-orbit commissioning."
- [confirms] NASA (EN, news, published 2025-01-15) https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2025/01/15/liftoff-firefly-lunar-lander-begins-journey-to-the-moon/: "Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost Mission 1 launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida."

### 미 우주군 발사장 (Vandenberg 등) (mid)
- note: Firefly conducts ongoing Alpha launch operations from Vandenberg Space Force Base (SLC-2) in California, a cost relationship for use of U.S. Space Force range/launch infrastructure. Additional pads under construction at Virginia's Wallops Island (Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport), Esrange (Sweden) and Cape Canaveral (Florida). Lease/range cost amounts undisclosed. Confirmed in the FY2025 10-K.
- [confirms] U.S. SEC EDGAR (EN, filing, published 2026-03-20) https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1860160/000119312526116309/fly-20251231.htm: "We arrange ongoing launch operations from the Vandenberg Space Force Base launch site in California. Additional launch sites are under construction at Virginia's Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport on Wallops Island and the Esrange Space Center in Sweden, and we plan to unlock future launch pad capacity from expected expansion at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida."

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