December 31, 2026 12:00 am

Blue Ghost Lunar Lander Mission 2

|

Falcon 9

Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Days
Hours
Minutes
Seconds
December 31, 2026 12:00 am

Share:

Last Updated:

2026-08-12 16:37:09

2nd lunar lander developed by Firefly Aerospace. The Blue Ghost lander will be of a new two-stage version utilizing an Elytra Dark transfer vehicle to place it and the European Space Agency’s Lunar Pathfinder experimental communication satellite into Lunar orbit. The lander will land on the far side of the Moon with 2 NASA payloads: * Lunar Surface Electromagnetics Experiment (LuSEE-Night) * User Terminal (UT)
Launch Overview
Window Open 00:00 UTC
Window Close 00:00 UTC
Lift Off Dec 31, 2026 · 00:00 UTC
Launch Facility Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Launch Pad Unknown Pad
Target Orbit Lunar Orbit
Payload Overview
Customer SpaceX
Payload Blue Ghost Lunar Lander Mission 2
Rocket Falcon 9
Destination Lunar Orbit
Recovery Overview
Landing Location See Mission Notes
Landing Type RTLS / Droneship
2nd lunar lander developed by Firefly Aerospace. The Blue Ghost lander will be of a new two-stage version utilizing an Elytra Dark transfer vehicle to place it and the European Space Agency’s Lunar Pathfinder experimental communication satellite into Lunar orbit. The lander will land on the far side of the Moon with 2 NASA payloads: * Lunar Surface Electromagnetics Experiment (LuSEE-Night) * User Terminal (UT)

Height

LEO Payload

Total Launches

Status

SpaceX
Unknown Pad
Launch Overview
Window Open 00:00 UTC
Window Close 00:00 UTC
Lift Off Dec 31, 2026 · 00:00 UTC
Launch Facility Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Launch Pad Unknown Pad
Target Orbit Lunar Orbit
Payload Overview
Customer SpaceX
Payload Blue Ghost Lunar Lander Mission 2
Rocket Falcon 9
Destination Lunar Orbit
Recovery Overview
Landing Location See Mission Notes
Landing Type RTLS / Droneship

Related Stories