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Jason Kim

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
224 total appearances

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The Rundown
Firefly Aerospace CEO on the Race to Monetize the Moon

And then our Eclipse rocket is a medium lift rocket that we're developing right now.

The Rundown
Firefly Aerospace CEO on the Race to Monetize the Moon

And it's designed to be a reasonable first stage from the get go.

The Rundown
Firefly Aerospace CEO on the Race to Monetize the Moon

And that is capable of taking 16 tons to orbit.

The Rundown
Firefly Aerospace CEO on the Race to Monetize the Moon

And so when you don't need a heavier or super heavy, you can buy just a medium launch vehicle and get several of your Constellation satellites up or

The Rundown
Firefly Aerospace CEO on the Race to Monetize the Moon

medium to large size payloads up as well responsibly.

The Rundown
Firefly Aerospace CEO on the Race to Monetize the Moon

So there's a place for each of the small, medium, heavy, and super heavy rockets in the industry.

The Rundown
Firefly Aerospace CEO on the Race to Monetize the Moon

And there's so much demand.

The Rundown
Firefly Aerospace CEO on the Race to Monetize the Moon

I mean, I've got old customers of mine from my last job calling me and saying, hey, my satellites are sitting on the ground.

The Rundown
Firefly Aerospace CEO on the Race to Monetize the Moon

When is your medium lift vehicle going to be ready?

The Rundown
Firefly Aerospace CEO on the Race to Monetize the Moon

So demand is not the problem.

The Rundown
Firefly Aerospace CEO on the Race to Monetize the Moon

It's really just increasing, steadily increasing our capacity year to year on our Alpha rocket and then getting to our first launch of our Eclipse rocket and rating that up as well.

The Rundown
Firefly Aerospace CEO on the Race to Monetize the Moon

It's no earlier than next year.

The Rundown
Firefly Aerospace CEO on the Race to Monetize the Moon

And everything we learned from our Alpha rocket launches in terms of we use the same carbon composite technology for the tanks, the primary structures.

The Rundown
Firefly Aerospace CEO on the Race to Monetize the Moon

The same engine technology that we use on our Alpha of our tap-off cycles, we just scaled that larger for our Eclipse rocket as well.

The Rundown
Firefly Aerospace CEO on the Race to Monetize the Moon

And then, you know, the avionics is something that, you know, we learned from Alpha and we can feed forward into Eclipse as well.

The Rundown
Firefly Aerospace CEO on the Race to Monetize the Moon

Well, I mentioned that we have, you know, the Alpha rocket and the Eclipse rocket, as well as our lunar landers and our electric spacecraft and SciTech.

The Rundown
Firefly Aerospace CEO on the Race to Monetize the Moon

All those products are revenue generating.

The Rundown
Firefly Aerospace CEO on the Race to Monetize the Moon

And so that's unheard of in the rocket business because, you know, typically you have to launch your first launch to generate revenue.

The Rundown
Firefly Aerospace CEO on the Race to Monetize the Moon

But even on our Eclipse rocket, we're co-developing that with our partner, Northrop Grumman.

The Rundown
Firefly Aerospace CEO on the Race to Monetize the Moon

And so we're generating revenue working with them.