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Blue Ghost Lunar Lander Mission 1 & Hakuto-R M2 “Resilience”

SUCCESSLunar ExplorationLO
Wednesday, January 15, 2025 at 06:11 AM UTC
Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
Falcon 9
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Mission Overview

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.

Payloads
1
Type
Lunar Exploration
Vehicle
Falcon 9
Window
06:06 AM UTC – 06:45 AM UTC

Rocket

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Falcon 9
SpaceX

Launch Site

Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

Orbit

LO·Lunar Orbit

Launch Window

Opens06:06 AM UTC
Closes06:45 AM UTC

Launch Site Weather

21°CPartly cloudy
Wind4 km/h ESE
Humidity88%
Visibility16 km

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