Falcon 9 Block 5 | Blue Ghost Lunar Lander Mission 1 & Hakuto-R M2 “Resilience”
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Launch Window
Jan. 15, 2025, 6:06 a.m. - Jan. 15, 2025, 6:45 a.m.
Jan. 15, 2025, 6:06 a.m. - Jan. 15, 2025, 6:45 a.m.
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.
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Both lunar landers now in contact.
Both Payloads deployed
Liftoff
Tweaked T-0.
Weather is 90% favorable for launch.
Falcon 9 is a two-stage rocket designed and manufactured by SpaceX for the reliable and safe transport of satellites and the Dragon spacecraft into orbit. The Block 5 variant is the fifth major interval aimed at improving upon the ability for rapid reusability.
See DetailsThe Falcon 9 first stage B1085 will attempt to land on ASDS JRTI after its 5th launch.
Result: Successful Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship landing at Just Read the Instructions.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.
INFO WIKI
Last year, history was made as a navigation receiver on the Moon determined its position in real time using signals from approximately 410 000 km away. The receiver, called the Lunar GNSS Receiver Experiment (LuGRE), acquired signals from …
Just over two years after the Japanese company ispace attempted but failed to land its… The post HAKUTO-R Mission 2 prepares to land on the Moon appeared first on NASASpaceFlight.com.
Mission 2, formally dubbed ‘SMBC x Hakuto-R Venture Moon,’ is a follow up to ispace’s 2023 failed landing attempt. Touchdown is anticipated on June 5 at 3:17 p.m. EDT / 1917 UTC (4:17 a.m. JST on June 6).
Resilience, the second mission by Japanese company ispace, likely crashed attempting a landing on the moon June 5. The post Second ispace lunar lander presumed lost appeared first on SpaceNews.
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