We're bringing nuclear power to the Moon in 2028. Today, @Zeno_Power announced an agreement with @FireflySpace to fly our Americium-241 Radioisotope Heater Unit (RHU) and Survive-the-Night Package on an upcoming Blue Ghost mission, in support of @NASAMoonBase. The race back to the Moon is a race to stay, and staying means surviving the two-week lunar night when temperatures fall below -280°F. Today, America is behind. Since 2019, China's Chang'e 4 mission has survived repeated lunar nights using radioisotope technology to stay alive. Recent U.S. lunar missions, relying on solar power and batteries, have not survived. That's about to change. After Blue Ghost completes its lunar-day operations, our RHU will provide continuous heat to keep the Survive-the-Night Package running through the dark as it transmits operational data back to Earth. NASA's demand signal for this was explicit: it specifically incentivized this mission to demonstrate surviving the lunar night with radioisotope technology by 2028. With Firefly, we're answering that call. Permanence is a power problem. @NASAMoonBase – and the dozens of missions in the coming years that will build toward a permanent lunar presence – will require nuclear at a scale that doesn't exist today. At Zeno, we're ready to meet that demand. Ad Lunam Per Nuclear!

NASA’s plans for a permanent Moon Base have dramatically accelerated the need for nuclear power on the Moon. Today, we’re preparing for our first lunar deployment in 2028. @NASAMoonBase will be built mission by mission, and spacecraft need to survive the lunar night to establish a permanent presence. Thanks for the chat @itsmoislam and @JackKuhr.

Humanity is going back to the frontier – but this time to stay.   And the frontier won't be held by a few large platforms, it'll be held by fleets and constellations of systems numbering in the thousands. That requires a category of distributed power at a scale the world has never built. Until now.   My latest on why we're industrializing nuclear battery production at the historic Vallecitos Nuclear Center: zenopower.com/announcements/…

In 1957, America's commercial nuclear era began at the Vallecitos Nuclear Center. Nearly seventy years later, we're putting that site back to work – restoring its world-class hot cells to industrialize nuclear battery production. The world is returning to the frontier, from the seabed to the lunar surface, but this time to stay. That demands distributed power at scale, and Zeno now has the manufacturing capability to deliver it – beginning in 2027.

The Moon Base (@NASAMoonBase) is going to need a lot of nuclear batteries. Good thing we’re building them – at scale. More to come next week.