Cudi appeared on The Arsenio Hall Show, where he promoted both the album, discussed the state of hip-hop, suicidal thoughts, the Need for Speed film and performed the song "Internal Bleeding", from the album. Critical reception Satellite Flight: The Journey to Mother Moon was met with generally mixed reviews. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from critics, the album received an average score of 60, which indicates "mixed or average reviews", based on 9 reviews. Erin Lowers of Exclaim! gave the album a six out of ten, saying "Satellite Flight: The Journey to the Mother Moon occupies a space between what is and what's coming, but Kid Cudi's admired originality falls short and is almost lackluster here in comparison to his previous works. For what it is, Satellite Flight is somewhere lost in the galaxy with a few glimmers of light shining on it from other planets." Whagle of Consequence of Sound gave the album a D+, saying "Despite several strong sections, including some of Cudi's best work in years, the album ends up being exactly what he intended it to be – a bridge between two things. A bridge, however, needs to lean on something stable. It can't stand on its own." Jayson Greene, of Pitchfork Media, gave the album a 6.0 and concluded with "Something surprising happens at the eleventh hour of Satellite Flight, however, and it bears mentioning. The sci-fi synths drop away, as does the dead-eyed chest-puffing. Cudi sings—sweetly, modestly, and in tune—over nothing but some guitar, finger-picked with the level of skill that suggests a deep study of Green Day's "All By Myself". The song is just two chords, but the voicing is haunting, and as Cudi hums to himself a sweet little melody, he instantly transforms into another possible version of himself: an indie-pop sad-sack troubadour, recording on a bed strewn with K Records 7-inches. Edwin Ortiz of HipHopDX gave the album four out of five stars, saying "Flaws and all, Satellite Flight: The journey to Mother Moon stands as one of Kid Cudi’s biggest accomplishments. Rejuvenated. Recreated. Rebooted. Call it what you will. Scott Mescudi made an EP’s worth of material feel like an album, and he did it without surrendering his artistic integrity in the process. If Satellite Flight truly is a bridge between Indicud and Man on the Moon III, fans will be in for