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Jason Kim

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
224 total appearances

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Firefly Aerospace CEO on the Race to Monetize the Moon

And we're starting to see in the last month beginnings of some of the data that the scientists are crunching.

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

And I think there's going to be decades and decades where

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

Blue Ghost Mission 1 data is going to continue to get processed into very, you know, better understanding of our universe, our moon, as well as our Earth-Moon-Sun interactions.

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

So really excited about hearing more and more about just Blue Ghost Mission 1.

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

And we were even able to take so much data from this mission.

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

close to 120 gigabytes of data were downlinked.

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

That was far exceeding by our order of magnitude what NASA was expecting.

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

And we were even able to sell some data after the fact to NASA.

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Firefly Aerospace CEO on the Race to Monetize the Moon

Yeah.

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

So that was a data cell, first commercial data cell made of moon data.

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

And we took that even further on Blue Ghost Mission 2.

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

You know, we're going to land our lander on the far side of the moon, but then we're going to keep an orbiter orbiting the moon, and that's going to serve as a long-haul communications relay.

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

But we also put a camera on there, and that camera is going to be able to image the moon in both ultraviolet as well as visible spectrum and do surveying of the moon.

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

We'll be able to sell that data commercially, just like we did on Blue Ghost Mission 1.

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Firefly Aerospace CEO on the Race to Monetize the Moon

over five years and it's going to help NASA scientists understand the physical futures of the moon.

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

You know, commercial companies can buy the data so that they can survey where the best place is to mine for minerals, things like helium three water, things of that nature.

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

And then in addition to that,

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

You know, there's moon bases that are going to be created.

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

So we'll be able to survey how the moon bases are progressing or the best places to land or put moon bases.

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

And then the moon is the ultimate high ground.