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

Launch Success

Liftoff Time (GMT)

06:11:39

Wednesday January 15, 2025

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Mission Details

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Blue Ghost Mission 1

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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.

Trans Lunar Injection

1 Payload

1,517 kilograms

HAKUTO-R M2 “Resilience”

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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 2025. 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.

Trans Lunar Injection

1 Payload

1,000 kilograms

Rocket

Active
Falcon 9 Block 5

Active Since 2018

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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

General Trajectory

E

S

Launching

Southeast

LC-39A

Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA

Fastest Turnaround

5 days 6 hours

Stats

Falcon 9


426th

Mission

8th

Mission of 2025

SpaceX


448th

Mission

8th

Mission of 2025

2025


10th

Orbital launch attempt