What a week for Firefly! I'm particularly proud of how we got the whole company involved in the IPO celebration. Fireflies poured their blood, toil, tears, and sweat into this company long before I arrived and we knew we wanted share this moment with everyone on Thursday.

Firefly's MLV rocket is now Eclipse: fireflyspace.com/news/northro...

I was told this doesn't get old. (it doesn't) 🔥🥵

Real, not renderings. 🔥 The @firefly-aerospace.bsky.social Engine Family:

The Senate Commerce Committee will hold a confirmation hearing for Jared Isaacman, nominee to be NASA administrator, April 9 at 10 am EDT.

The final moments of Blue Ghost Mission 1, witnessing sunset on the Moon: www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpA9... @firefly-aerospace.bsky.social

Blue Ghost Mission 1 ended today as planned when lunar night began, after two weeks of operating on the Moon's surface. Our lander sent back this final message as it turned on "Monument Mode:"

The Sun, emerging from totality behind the Earth, seen from Blue Ghost's perch on the Moon: @firefly-aerospace.bsky.social

Landing footage from Firefly's Blue Ghost lander -- this is cool: youtu.be/emebSgs1f2w

Week two with the incomparable @firefly-aerospace.bsky.social team, who keep stacking up wins for this great American company!

IM-2 update this morning: “With the direction of the sun, the orientation of the solar panels, and extreme cold temperatures in the crater, Intuitive Machines does not expect Athena to recharge. The mission has concluded….” www.intuitivemachines.com/im-2

Starship IFT-8: LIFTOFF! At 6:30pm EST (2330 UTC)

If you'd like some counter programming for today, Intuitive Machines is aiming to land its second lunar lander on the moon at around 12:30PM ET, hopefully upright this time! www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Moon chores are going well, just finished our vacuuming: fireflyspace.com/news/blue-gh...

Watch Firefly land on the Moon! After identifying surface hazards and selecting a safe landing site, #BlueGhost landed directly over the target in Mare Crisium. A historic moment on March 2 we'll never forget. We have Moon dust on our boots! #BGM1 youtu.be/NpHhEybJdxg

Firefly made history last weekend. Watch Blue Ghost's awe-inspiring Moon landing video:

Blue Ghost is on the moon. The lunar horizon, with Earth in view, seen from our lander's top deck:

Looks like @michaelsheetz.bsky.social chose a decent week to start at Firefly! 😄

Best first week ever. #BGM1

In 12 hours, we land on the MOON!!! 🌖 Tune in tonight to the Firefly & NASA livestream, which will begin about an hour before Blue Ghost Mission One's landing at ~2:30am CT: www.youtube.com/live/ChEuA1A...

Blue Ghost lands tonight! www.youtube.com/live/ChEuA1A...

Quelle vue, les enfants ! Qu'il réussisse à se poser ou non, Blue Ghost a déjà marqué une belle réussite pour Firefly, qui en est à sa première mission lunaire privée (disons, publique-privée).

Blue Ghost, in orbit about 100km above the moon:

Day one 🚀🤠💪

X37-B is an incredible spacecraft. Space Force released the first on-orbit image in 15 years of operational flights, showing the secretive uncrewed reusable spaceplane high above Earth:

I am thrilled to join Firefly as Director of Investor Relations!

New special report: China is swiftly forging space ties with African nations, and its investments in satellites and infrastructure are winning friends – and expanding its eyes on the skies – as America slashes help for developing countries. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

@michaelsheetz.bsky.social is leaving @cnbc.com for a new opportunity: talkingbiznews.com/media-news/c...

A decade ago I first walked through the doors of CNBC headquarters. 🧵

Troy Meink, a top official at the NRO and Trump's Air Force nominee, arranged a lucrative contract solicitation for a spy satellite network in way that favored Elon Musk's SpaceX, sparking complaints and an IG probe, per 7 people familiar with the contract. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

At an all hands meeting this afternoon, Boeing told employees it expects to lay off up to 400 employees on the SLS program

"Crucially, Vast just set the bar for how to be taken seriously as a space station company, with transparency around when it aims to complete milestones leading up to the first crewed mission reaching Haven-1. Every other company working on a space station take note" via @michaelsheetz.bsky.social

Boeing's Starliner program losses total $2 billion and counting: www.cnbc.com/2025/02/04/b...

One of the three parachutes on Blue Origin's New Shepard capsule was slow to expand during today's NS-29 cargo flight.

I've been having my colleagues play a fun game called Spot Suni in the office today

Blue Origin NS-29: LIFTOFF! At 11:00am EST (1600 UTC)

Anyway, here's Suni Williams being a badass

NASA Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel (ASAP) telecon should start in 2 miniutes. spacepolicyonline.com/events/nasa-...

One of Russia's richest men held a stake in Elon Musk-led SpaceX via a trust even after he was sanctioned by the US, exposing gaps in the enforcement of rules intended to target elites who enable Kremlin policies, people said. -- @KatrinaManson www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating a midair collision of an American Airlines regional jet with a helicopter near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport outside Washington, D.C.

ISS commander Suni Williams, earlier this month: "It's just been a joy to be working up here."

European Space Agency's Planetary Defence Office: Asteroid "2024 YR4" – estimated between 40m to 100m wide – has a 1.2% chance of impacting Earth on December 22, 2032. "Possible impact cannot yet be entirely ruled out" www.esa.int/Space_Safety...

NASA statement:

Planet signed its “biggest deal ever,” CEO Will Marshall says: $230 million for Pelican satellites from a company in Asia Pacific. www.cnbc.com/2025/01/29/p...

Despite the vagueness of the OMB order, I attempted to make a reasonable guess based on its definitions and references to 2 C.F.R. § 200.1. NASA's active grants and "Cooperative Agreements" have nearly $887M of obligations in the past few fiscal years, and impact every state in the union.

For what it's worth, NASA already decided in August to bring back Butch & Suni via SpaceX: www.cnbc.com/2024/08/24/n... They're planned to return as part of Crew-9 after Crew-10 launches in March: blogs.nasa.gov/commercialcr...

NS-29: Blue Origin has scrubbed today's launch of a sub-orbital New Shepard rocket carrying microgravity experiments; 2 issues were cited: thick cloud cover over the West Texas launch site and then problems with avionics in the rocket's propulsion system; a new launch date has not yet been set

Boom's demonstrater jet XB-1 just went supersonic for the first time, reaching Mach 1.1. Boom is also putting on a livestreaming clinic: Uninterrupted views, mission control audio, detailed commentary. A lot of space companies should follow this example. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qis...

Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg expects a "few" M&A sales this year, with potential deals in "advanced stages." "Don't think of this as major structural redesign of the corporation, but I do think there's places we can streamline." "Not in a hurry" to name a new head of the defense & space unit.

Intuitive Machines second cargo lunar lander, named "Athena," arrived in Florida for launch, with a window opening on Feb. 26: www.intuitivemachines.com/post/intuiti...