Firefly Aerospace’s expansion gives Cedar Park another meaningful role in the rapidly growing U.S. space economy. The company has expanded to a 144,000-square-foot campus across three facilities supporting spacecraft assembly and testing, mission control, avionics and component production, engineering, and business operations.
For our clients, neighbors, and families considering a move to Central Texas, this news is bigger than a new office address. We live here, we work here, and we know firsthand that this momentum supports Cedar Park’s aerospace and advanced-manufacturing identity. It bolsters the area’s high-skill employment base and gives buyers more reasons to evaluate the city as a long-term place to live, work, and raise a family. At the same time, we always advise our clients to separate confirmed facts from housing-market assumptions: a major employer’s growth strengthens local demand and opportunity, but it doesn’t guarantee a particular home value, tax bill, commute time, or school assignment.
“Firefly is producing rockets and spacecraft at scale.” — Ramon Sanchez, COO, Firefly Aerospace.
What Firefly Is Adding in Cedar Park
Firefly announced on May 19, 2026, that it had moved into a new headquarters, expanded its cleanroom capacity, and added its Gloworks innovation lab. The company says two new buildings adjacent to its existing Cedar Park spacecraft facility create one larger, integrated campus that is twice the size of its former Cedar Park facilities…