Firefly Aerospace spreads across three Cedar Park buildings as it scales production

CEDAR PARK — Firefly Aerospace has expanded into a roughly 144,000-square-foot footprint spread across three buildings on a single Central Texas campus, giving the company more room for engineering, mission operations and payload integration as it scales spacecraft production and testing.

The buildout combines a 44,000-square-foot headquarters at 2203 Scottsdale Drive, a 45,000-square-foot facility known as 'The Hive' at 5900 183A, and a newly added 55,000-square-foot space at 1500 Volta Drive. The expansion, reported in spring 2026, tracks with Firefly's recent lunar and launch milestones and is meant to support a growing local workforce.

Cedar Park's incentive agreement with the company is tied to performance milestones and hiring targets that could unlock up to $1 million in city payments. Firefly is also preparing for Blue Ghost Mission 2 under a NASA contract to deliver payloads to lunar orbit and the far side of the Moon.

Why it matters

Firefly's growth is cementing Cedar Park, a northern Austin suburb, as a genuine space-manufacturing hub rather than a satellite of one. The decision to expand in place, building a multi-site campus instead of consolidating elsewhere, keeps high-skill aerospace jobs in Central Texas at a moment when launch and lunar-lander demand is rising.