NEXT SPACEFLIGHT

Status

Blue Ghost Mission 1 & HAKUTO-R M2 “Resilience”

Launch Time
NET January, 2025
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Rocket

Falcon 9 Block 5
Image Credit: SpaceX
SpaceX
Status: Active
Price: $69.75 million
Liftoff Thrust: 7,607 kN
Payload to LEO: 22,800 kg
Payload to GTO: 8,300 kg
Stages: 2
Strap-ons: 0
Rocket Height: 70.0 m
Fairing Diameter: 5.2 m
Fairing Height: 13.0 m

Mission Details

Blue Ghost Mission 1

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.

Payloads: 1
Trans Lunar Injection

HAKUTO-R M2 “Resilience”

HAKUTO-R is a multinational commercial lunar exploration program operated by ispace. It includes ispace's first two lunar missions, the second mission will perform a soft landing on the Moon and deployment of a rover developed by ispace in 2024. In addition to its studies on the moon's surface, the rover is 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
Trans Lunar Injection

Location

LC-39A, Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA