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Falcon 9 Block 5 | Blue Ghost Lunar Lander Mission 1 & Hakuto-R M2 “Resilience”

Blue Ghost M1 & Hakuto-R M2

SpaceX · Falcon 9 Block 5 · Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

SpaceX's 457th launch · 8th this year · humanity's 6,859th orbital launch attempt

T− --:--:--January 15, 2025 · 06:11 UTCAdd to calendar
Success90% go

The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).

Weather concerns: Liftoff Winds, Cumulus Cloud Rule

Window: Jan 15, 06:06Jan 15, 06:45 UTC

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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.

Lunar Exploration · Lunar Orbit (LO)

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  • B1085 · flight 5 · Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship @ Just Read the Instructions · landed ✓ · last flew Falcon 9 Block 5 | GPS III SV07 (RRT-1) · zone record 156/157

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Flight timeline

  1. T−38MGO for Prop Load
  2. T−35MStage 1 LOX Load
  3. T−35MProp Load
  4. T−16MStage 2 LOX Load
  5. T−7MEngine Chill
  6. T−1MTank Press
  7. T−1MStartup
  8. T−45SGO for Launch
  9. T−3SIgnition
  10. P0DLiftoff
  11. T+1M12SMax-Q
  12. T+2M28SMECO
  13. T+2M31SStage 2 Separation
  14. T+2M38SSES-1
  15. T+3M28SFairing Separation
  16. T+6M4SEntry Burn Startup
  17. T+6M30SEntry Burn Shutdown
  18. T+7M49SSECO-1
  19. T+7M58SStage 1 Landing Burn
  20. T+8M20SStage 1 Landing
  21. T+58M24SSES-2
  22. T+59M25SSECO-2
  23. T+1H5M36SPayload Separation
  24. T+1H26M15SSES-3
  25. T+1H26M16SSECO-3
  26. T+1H32M42SPayload Separation

Updates

  • Both lunar landers now in contact.

    Cosmic_Penguin · 1/15/2025 · source

  • Both Payloads deployed

    hitura-nobad · 1/15/2025 · source

  • Liftoff

    hitura-nobad · 1/15/2025 · source

  • Tweaked T-0.

    Cosmic_Penguin · 1/15/2025 · source

  • Weather is 90% favorable for launch.

    Nosu · 1/14/2025 · source

  • Tweaked T-0.

    Cosmic_Penguin · 1/14/2025 · source

  • GO for launch.

    Cosmic_Penguin · 1/7/2025 · source

  • NET January 15.

    Cosmic_Penguin · 1/7/2025 · source

  • Updated entry with Blue Ghost Mission 1 & HAKUTO-R M2 confirmed to be launching on the same rocket.

    Cosmic_Penguin · 12/11/2024 · source

  • NET January.

    Cosmic_Penguin · 11/21/2024 · source

Pad — Launch Complex 39A

Local pad time: Jan 15, 1:11 AM EST

222 launches from this pad · 281 from Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

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