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Closing Bell

Manifest Space: Blue Ghost Blasts Off with Firefly Aerospace CEO Jason Kim

Closing Bell

CNBC

News, Business

4.4139 Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

2025 is kicking off with a series of lunar missions. As soon as next week, Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost will launch for a 60 day voyage that will eventually take the lunar lander to the moon. Firefly Aerospace CEO Jason Kim joins Morgan Brennan to discuss the milestone moon mission, what he expects the $2 billion startup to accomplish this year, and what the incoming Trump administration could mean for space exploration

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0:00.0

Fly me to the moon.

0:04.0

2025 is kicking off with a series of lunar missions, starting first with U.S.-based Firefly Aerospace.

0:10.0

We're really excited because we have a really cordial relationship with all the

0:15.0

commercial payload lunar services program, NASA competitors.

0:19.0

We call each other, we talk to each other. We give lessons

0:22.3

learned to each other. We're going to learn a lot from Blue Ghost 1 and the subsequent Blue Ghost

0:27.5

missions, and we want that to be readily available for everybody because we want this lunar

0:32.1

ecosystem to really be endearing. As soon as January 15th, the Ghost Riders in the Sky Mission will start, when Firefly's

0:39.9

Blue Ghost Lander launches on a SpaceX rocket for a 60-day voyage that will include landing

0:45.4

on the moon.

0:46.4

Blue Ghost will carry payloads and run experiments for NASA as part of the commercial lunar

0:50.7

payload services program, or eclipse.

0:53.8

But Blue Ghost is just the first.

0:56.5

Also hitching a ride on the same rocket is Japanese company I-Spaces lander, which will take

1:01.3

a longer route to get to the moon. And later this month, intuitive machines will attempt to send

1:06.2

its second commercial lunar lander as well, a little more than a year after it made history with its first.

1:13.2

Firefly's Blue Ghost is in focus, but new CEO Jason Kim, who took the helm in October,

1:19.1

says all of the company's businesses are generating revenue.

1:22.4

What I would say is a lot of people like to focus on the rocket engines or focus on the satellite software.

1:28.3

I focus on the business and creating a business that's enduring and sustainable and growing.

1:33.3

So what I believe is companies like Firefly are going to continue to do really well as long as we execute.

1:41.3

And also we also have spacecraft and rockets And having the end-to-end

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