Blue Ghost Mission 2

Liftoff Time

No Earlier Than 2nd Quarter, 2026

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Mission Details

Blue Ghost Mission 2

Second launch of Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lunar lander under a NASA CLPS contract. It will debut a new two-stage version of Blue Ghost utilizing an Elytra Dark transfer vehicle to place it and the European Space Agency's Lunar Pathfinder satellite into Lunar orbit. Blue Ghost will then attempt to land on the far side of the Moon.

Highly Elliptical Orbit

Rocket

Active
Falcon 9 Block 5

Active Since 2018

SpaceX logo

Agency

SpaceX

Price

$69.75 million

Rocket

Diameter: 3.7m

Height: 70m

Payload to Orbit

LEO: 22,800 kg

GTO: 8,300 kg

Liftoff Thrust

7,607 Kilonewtons

Fairing

Diameter: 5.2m

Height: 13m

Stages

2

Launch Site

Unknown Pad

SLC-40 or LC-39A, Florida, USA