Scheduled for (UTC) 2025-01-15, 06:11:39
Scheduled for (local) 2025-01-15, 01:11:39 (EST)
Launch site LC-39A, Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA
Booster B1085-5
Landing Just Read the Instructions
Payloads Blue Ghost and HAKUTO-R
Customers Firefly Aerospace, NASA, ispace
Mission success criteria Successful delivery of payloads to Trans Lunar Injection

Webcasts

Stream Link
NASA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMdYV3_rlP8
ispace https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLdH5OV7sLU
Space Affairs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOizIG3gSho
Spaceflight Now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WI9DAXWHUgg
NASASpaceflight https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWY-GFHcjik
The Launch Pad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJwqe4Rr0xc
SpaceX https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1879400782241698007
The Space Devs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JtggBguTYs

Stats

Sourced from NextSpaceflight and r/SpaceX:

☑️ 2nd launch from LC-39A this year

☑️ 6 days, 14:44:24 turnaround for this pad

☑️ 106th landing on JRTI

☑️ 401st Falcon Family Booster landing, 415th Falcon recovery attempt

☑️ 74th consecutive successful Falcon 9 launch (if successful)

☑️ 8th Falcon 9 mission this year, 426th Falcon 9 mission overall

☑️ 8th SpaceX mission this year, 442nd mission overall (excluding Starship flights)

☑️ 8th SpaceX launch this year, 458th SpaceX launch overall (including Starship flights)

Mission info

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.

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.