January 15, 2025 6:11 am

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

|

Falcon 9

Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
Days
Hours
Minutes
Seconds
January 15, 2025 6:11 am

Share:

Last Updated:

2026-07-11 08:30:21

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.
Launch Overview
Window Open 06:06 UTC
Window Close 06:45 UTC
Lift Off Jan 15, 2025 · 06:11 UTC
Launch Facility Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
Launch Pad Launch Complex 39A
Target Orbit Lunar Orbit
Payload Overview
Customer SpaceX
Payload Blue Ghost Lunar Lander Mission 1 & Hakuto-R M2 “Resilience”
Rocket Falcon 9
Destination Lunar Orbit
Recovery Overview
Landing Location See Mission Notes
Landing Type RTLS / Droneship
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.

Height

LEO Payload

Total Launches

Status

SpaceX
Launch Complex 39A
Launch Overview
Window Open 06:06 UTC
Window Close 06:45 UTC
Lift Off Jan 15, 2025 · 06:11 UTC
Launch Facility Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
Launch Pad Launch Complex 39A
Target Orbit Lunar Orbit
Payload Overview
Customer SpaceX
Payload Blue Ghost Lunar Lander Mission 1 & Hakuto-R M2 “Resilience”
Rocket Falcon 9
Destination Lunar Orbit
Recovery Overview
Landing Location See Mission Notes
Landing Type RTLS / Droneship

Related Stories