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Falcon 9 Block 5 | Blue Ghost Lunar Lander Mission 1 & Hakuto-R M2 “Resilience”

January 15, 2025 at 6:11 AM UTC

Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Blue Ghost Lunar Lander Mission 1 & Hakuto-R M2 “Resilience” launch image
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January 15, 2025 at 6:11 AM UTC

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Launch Complex 39A

Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA · 28.6082, -80.6043

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Launch Complex 39A

Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

Launch probability
90%
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January 15, 2025 at 6:06 AM UTC
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January 15, 2025 at 6:45 AM UTC
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January 29, 2025 at 7:08 PM UTC

Mission description

Blue Ghost is a commercial lunar lander developed by Firefly Aerospace for NASA’s CLPS program. Blue Ghost is designed to bring up to 155kg of payload to the lunar surface. It will land at Mare Crisium in the Crisium Basin and is designed to last 14 days before freezing in the lunar night. Resilience is the second mission of the Hakuto-R commercial lunar lander developed by private Japanese company ispace. The lander will carry a small rover developed by ispace to perform studies on the moon's surface. The rover is also expected to collect lunar regolith as part of a contract with NASA signed in 2020, in which companies will collect materials on the moon and then transfer ownership "in situ" to the agency.

Weather concern: Liftoff Winds, Cumulus Cloud Rule
Vehicle

Falcon 9 Block 5

Falcon · Block 5

Height

70 m

Diameter

3.65 m

LEO capacity

22,800 kg

Successful launches

623

Launch complex

Launch Complex 39A

Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

The John F. Kennedy Space Center, located on Merritt Island, Florida, is one of NASA's ten field centers. Since 1968, KSC has been NASA's primary launch center of American spaceflight, research, and technology. Launch operations for the Apollo, Skylab and Space Shuttle programs were carried out from Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39 and managed by KSC. Located on the east coast of Florida, KSC is adjacent to Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS).

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Mission updates

Both lunar landers now in contact.

January 15, 2025 at 12:08 PM UTC · Cosmic_Penguin

Both Payloads deployed

January 15, 2025 at 7:44 AM UTC · hitura-nobad

Liftoff

January 15, 2025 at 6:12 AM UTC · hitura-nobad

Tweaked T-0.

January 15, 2025 at 6:03 AM UTC · Cosmic_Penguin

Weather is 90% favorable for launch.

January 14, 2025 at 4:46 PM UTC · Nosu