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Jason Kim

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
224 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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Firefly Aerospace CEO on the Race to Monetize the Moon

But, you know, there's a portion of that backlog that is our alpha rocket with our multi-launch agreements with great companies like Lockheed Martin.

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Firefly Aerospace CEO on the Race to Monetize the Moon

But we're also seeing a lot of backlog generation with programs like Forge from Scitech.

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Firefly Aerospace CEO on the Race to Monetize the Moon

That's a total value to date around $800 million and counting.

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Firefly Aerospace CEO on the Race to Monetize the Moon

And there's a lot of opportunities to bolt on engineering change proposals because it is so critical to

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Firefly Aerospace CEO on the Race to Monetize the Moon

That, you know, when the customers say, hey, I want more of this because they're seeing it in operations and it's so vital that they're getting more funds for us and we can add more engineering change proposals to the Forge program and even our Lunar Lander programs, Blue Ghost.

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Firefly Aerospace CEO on the Race to Monetize the Moon

We are able to sell excess capacity on our launches to host commercial payloads, just like we did on Blue Ghost Mission 2.

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Firefly Aerospace CEO on the Race to Monetize the Moon

We have a UAE rover on there that we sold commercial hosted slots on that mission that we're going to take to the far side of the moon for that country.

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Firefly Aerospace CEO on the Race to Monetize the Moon

So there's nation states that are able to do incredible game changing missions for their nation.

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Firefly Aerospace CEO on the Race to Monetize the Moon

by, you know, having a commercial contract on any of our Blue Ghost missions that are going up.

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Firefly Aerospace CEO on the Race to Monetize the Moon

And we've got a second one that's going to go up to the far side of the moon.

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Firefly Aerospace CEO on the Race to Monetize the Moon

The third one's going to go to the Groote Huizen domes.

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Firefly Aerospace CEO on the Race to Monetize the Moon

And then the fourth one is going to go to the South Pole.

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Firefly Aerospace CEO on the Race to Monetize the Moon

And each one of those is going to have capabilities to put

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Firefly Aerospace CEO on the Race to Monetize the Moon

payloads, hosted payloads, either on the lander itself to go to the surface of the moon or even on our orbiter that's going to orbit the moon over five years.

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Firefly Aerospace CEO on the Race to Monetize the Moon

So there's a lot of opportunities for bolt-on engineering change proposals or commercial sales on top of our NASA contract.

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Firefly Aerospace CEO on the Race to Monetize the Moon

Well, we learned that all that sacrifice of the thousands of hours of rehearsals and the hundreds of hours of testing the lander in, you know, relevant environments like environmental testing at Jet Propulsion Laboratory or even at our Rocket Ranch 200 acre facility where we're looking at our hazard navigation system, testing that out, you know, all that

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Firefly Aerospace CEO on the Race to Monetize the Moon

In addition to all the countless simulations, we had over 14 simulations with our mission operations teams.

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Firefly Aerospace CEO on the Race to Monetize the Moon

It all paid off.

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Firefly Aerospace CEO on the Race to Monetize the Moon

You know, all that hard work paid off because when the team was going through the 45 days of having to do seven burns to get to the translunar injection to the lunar orbit and then do all the braking maneuvers and then doing the autonomous last hour of landing.

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Firefly Aerospace CEO on the Race to Monetize the Moon

I mean, anything could have gone wrong.