| 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.
Firefly Blue Ghost separation confirmed!
Edit: Next up, the payload canister which currently covers HAKUTO-R is scheduled to deploy at T+01:11:56.
Edit 2:
Well, it looks like we didn’t get that callout.Canister deployment confirmed on the SpaceX livestream.