Falcon 9 Block 5 | Blue Ghost Lunar Lander Mission 1 & Hakuto-R M2 “Resilience”
Launch Complex 39A
Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
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SpaceX
Space Exploration Technologies Corp., known as SpaceX, is an American aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company headquartered in Hawthorne, California. It was founded in 2002 by entrepreneur Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation costs and enabling the colonization of Mars. SpaceX operates from many pads, on the East Coast of the US they operate from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and historic LC-39A at Kennedy Space Center. They also operate from SLC-4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, usually for polar launches. Another launch site is being developed at Boca Chica, Texas.
Blue Ghost Lunar Lander Mission 1 & Hakuto-R M2 “Resilience”
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.
Falcon 9 Block 5
Height 70.00 Meters
Max Stages 2
Mass To GTO 8300 kg
Liftoff Thrust 7607 kN
Diameter 3.65 Meters
Mass To LEO 22800 kg
Liftoff Mass 549 Tonnes
Launch Success 368
Consecutive Success 71
Maiden Flight 2018-05-11
Launch Failures 1
Core
Serial B1085
Status active
Flight Proven Yes
Flights 5
Landing Attempt Yes
Landing Success Yes
Type ASDS
Location JRTI
Updates
Cosmic_Penguin
2025-01-15T12:08:00+0000
Both lunar landers now in contact.
hitura-nobad
2025-01-15T07:44:00+0000
Both Payloads deployed
hitura-nobad
2025-01-15T06:12:00+0000
Liftoff
Cosmic_Penguin
2025-01-15T06:03:00+0000
Tweaked T-0.
Nosu
2025-01-14T16:46:00+0000
Weather is 90% favorable for launch.
Cosmic_Penguin
2025-01-14T14:41:00+0000
Tweaked T-0.
Cosmic_Penguin
2025-01-07T14:40:00+0000
GO for launch.
Cosmic_Penguin
2025-01-07T14:36:00+0000
NET January 15.
Cosmic_Penguin
2024-12-11T19:52:00+0000
Updated entry with Blue Ghost Mission 1 & HAKUTO-R M2 confirmed to be launching on the same rocket.
Cosmic_Penguin
2024-11-21T02:48:00+0000
NET January.
Cosmic_Penguin
2023-09-23T00:50:38+0000
NET Fall 2024.
Nosu
2023-07-18T06:24:40+0000
NET May 2024
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