Quantum Aerospace, the fast-growing space-logistics firm whose first AstroVault cultural archive rode Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 to a historic Moon landing this spring, is putting public relations on afterburners. The company announced today that it has retained boutique communications house Moseley + Koch and elevated agency co-founder William Moseley to serve simultaneously as News & Media Director and public face of all AstroVault missions going forward.
From quiet success to public spotlight
Until now, Quantum Aerospace has kept a low profile outside aerospace circles, even after its payload became part of Blue Ghost’s record-setting 14-day surface campaign at Mare Crisium—the longest commercial operation on the Moon to date. The lander touched down on March 2, 2025, after a January 15 launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9, earning headlines as the first fully private vehicle to deliver multiple customer payloads safely to the lunar surface.
Headquartered in Portland, Oregon, Quantum specializes in “space-delivery services” for everything from university instruments to high-value cultural artifacts. The company’s signature product, AstroVault, is a modular data-vault system co-developed with Space Ark Media Group to preserve art, science, and heritage beyond Earth. The Moon-flown vault now houses thousands of gigabytes of encrypted archives and a titanium-etched micro-library designed to survive millennia.
William Moseley: A Media Maverick With Rocket Fuel in His Veins
Raised in Brevard County, Florida—just thirty miles from the launch pads of Cape Canaveral—William Moseley watched shuttle liftoffs from his backyard before he ever set foot in a recording studio. By his twenties he had become a Grammy-nominated producer, crafting hits for reggae legends such as The Wailers and spearheading cross-genre collaborations that racked up platinum sales.
In 2015 Moseley and longtime business partner Ryan Koch launched Moseley + Koch, a crisis-comms and brand-strategy shop whose client roster ranges from Silicon Valley unicorns to international record labels. Moseley’s knack for translating dense technical subjects into irresistible storylines—honed while rescuing a few high-profile companies from PR freefall—made him an obvious choice for Quantum’s next leap.
Yet space never left his imagination. Over the past decade he has volunteered with STEM-education nonprofits, invested in early-stage launch startups, and served as an informal advisor on NASA’s public-engagement roundtables. AstroVault unites those twin passions—culture and cosmos—at the orbital level.
“A 150-kilogram lander isn’t just hardware; it’s a stage for humanity’s greatest stories,” Moseley said when today’s deal was announced. “My job is to make sure every kid with a dream—and every researcher with a breakthrough—knows there’s room for their voice in AstroVault.”
Under the agreement, Moseley + Koch will steer global media relations, produce a documentary web series tracking each vault from clean room to touchdown, and host “AstroVault Live,” a quarterly livestream pairing mission updates with artist performances and scientist Q&As.
Anatomy of a Modern Moonshot
Blue Ghost Mission 1 (2025)
- Lander: Firefly’s Blue Ghost, an 850-kilogram solar-powered platform built under NASA’s CLPS program
- Launch Vehicle: SpaceX Falcon 9, LC-39A, Kennedy Space Center
- Payloads: NASA spectrometers and seismometers, university CubeSats, and the inaugural AstroVault “Lunar Time Capsule”
- Landing Site: Mare Crisium, near 17° N, 61° E
- Mission Length: 14 days of surface operations (lunar daylight)
AstroVault’s debut module carried:
- A radiation-hardened solid-state archive containing digitized art, literature, genomic datasets, and endangered-language audio files
- A titanium microfiche etched with 10 million pages of open-source scientific knowledge
- A passive laser-reflector retro-cube for future tracking experiments
Within hours of touchdown, Quantum’s payload began transmitting self-check telemetry—verifying that the vault’s temperature-regulated casing and shock-absorption cradle had weathered launch, transit, and lunar descent intact. The mission gave Quantum the “flight heritage” every aerospace contractor craves and proved that its proprietary archive hardware can survive the brutal thermal swings of the lunar day.
Blue Ghost Mission 2 (Planned Q4 2026)
The follow-up vault will triple storage capacity, introduce a laser-communications node for gigabit-class downlinks, and host Quantum’s first “open-slot” program.
AstroVault III: Low-Earth Orbit (Mid-2027)
Designed as a living archive, the LEO Vault will circle at 525 km, enabling continuous two-way data flow among universities, museums, and citizen-science groups. A Mars-orbit variant is already in early design for the 2030s.
Building on Blue Ghost, aiming higher
With the lunar proof-of-concept complete, Quantum Aerospace is preparing two follow-ups:
| Milestone | Target Date | Key Details |
|---|---|---|
| AstroVault II (Lunar) | Q4 2026 | Larger vault, laser-communications downlink, manifested on Firefly’s Blue Ghost Mission 2. |
| AstroVault III (Earth Orbit) | Mid-2027 | Continuous-access archive designed for real-time uploads from education and research partners. |
A Mars-orbit variant is already on the engineering drawing board for the early 2030s.
A culture project with commercial legs
Space Ark Media, the content-curation partner behind the vault, says more than 600 institutions and creators have pre-registered to place works in the next launch window, ranging from indigenous oral histories to cutting-edge genomic datasets. Quantum’s business model charges by payload size and encryption tier, effectively turning archival real estate into a revenue stream that subsidizes future science missions.
What the partnership signals
Industry analysts see today’s announcement as a signal that Quantum Aerospace is ready to move from quiet contractor to public-facing brand. “Flight heritage matters, but so does narrative,” notes space-economy watcher Dr. Elena Ruiz. “Hiring a seasoned storyteller like Moseley means Quantum wants to be known not just for shipping hardware, but for shaping culture.”
Moseley shares that view. “Space is the biggest stage humanity has,” he says. “If we do our job right, AstroVault won’t just store our past—it’ll invite everyone to help write the next chapter.”
With a lunar victory already under its belt and a charismatic new front man at the microphone, Quantum Aerospace is betting that the road to the stars runs straight through the court of public opinion. Judging by today’s headlines, that bet is already paying off.
