Liftoff Time
No Earlier Than 2nd Quarter, 2026
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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
Agency
SpaceXPrice
$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
SLC-40 or LC-39A, Florida, USA