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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

So there's national security customers like the Space Force that are interested about what's going on in the moon, but also what's going around the moon in cislunar space.

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Firefly Aerospace CEO on the Race to Monetize the Moon

Yeah, you're spot on.

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Firefly Aerospace CEO on the Race to Monetize the Moon

You know, everything that we're doing around Earth

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

we're reproducing around the moon.

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Firefly Aerospace CEO on the Race to Monetize the Moon

And it's things like imaging and surveying the moon.

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Firefly Aerospace CEO on the Race to Monetize the Moon

It's things like communicating around the moon back to Earth.

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Firefly Aerospace CEO on the Race to Monetize the Moon

It's things like actually being on the moon's surface, creating infrastructure.

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Firefly Aerospace CEO on the Race to Monetize the Moon

We've got designs for larger landers that have the elements that made us successful on our Blue Ghost Mission 1 landing, but bigger.

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Firefly Aerospace CEO on the Race to Monetize the Moon

And that way, we can take even more to the moon

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Firefly Aerospace CEO on the Race to Monetize the Moon

things like power plants and more communication systems, light terrain vehicles, more rovers, cargo for supporting a permanent presence of humans on the moon.

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Firefly Aerospace CEO on the Race to Monetize the Moon

Everything we're doing on Earth, we can reproduce on the moon.

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Firefly Aerospace CEO on the Race to Monetize the Moon

Yes.

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Firefly Aerospace CEO on the Race to Monetize the Moon

So what's going on is on our Blue Ghost Mission 2 mission, I mentioned we're going to land on the far side of the moon.

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Firefly Aerospace CEO on the Race to Monetize the Moon

We're going to have that orbiting spacecraft called Electra, and that's going to provide long haul communications relay capability.

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Firefly Aerospace CEO on the Race to Monetize the Moon

But we also put a camera on that orbiter and we call that service Ocula.

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Firefly Aerospace CEO on the Race to Monetize the Moon

and we're going to be able to sell the data from that sensor uh commercially but that sensor also has a an nvidia jetson module on it and so because we have scitech as a subsidiary now they do ai processing algorithms so we're going to be able to port scitech ai processing onto that jetson it's going to launch and it's going to orbit the moon

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Firefly Aerospace CEO on the Race to Monetize the Moon

It's going to take the data and we're going to be able to show the benefits of AI around the moon, particularly in processing different events around the moon and on the moon really quickly, but then reducing that data into a smaller data chunk so we can

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Firefly Aerospace CEO on the Race to Monetize the Moon

send that data more efficiently down our bandwidth that we have.

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Firefly Aerospace CEO on the Race to Monetize the Moon

So it's going to test out a lot of different things and show the benefits of AI around the moon.

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Firefly Aerospace CEO on the Race to Monetize the Moon

And it's not just this mission.