Blue Ghost Lunar Lander Mission 1 & Hakuto-R M2 “Resilience”

Sent two commercial lunar landers toward the Moon on one rocket for the first time: Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost Mission 1 under NASA's CLPS program and ispace's Resilience (Hakuto-R Mission 2). Blue Ghost went on to land successfully in Mare Crisium in March 2025.

Outcome

Success

Orbit

LO

Lunar orbit

Payload to orbit

2.6 T (est.)

Flight

368th

of 638 Falcon 9 Block 5 flights

Date and time

15 January 2025, 06:11 UTC

Rocket

Falcon 9 Block 5

Builder

SpaceX

Launch site

Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

Payload

Lunar Exploration

International designator

2025-010

Launches in 2025

10th of 329

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