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Blue Ghost Lunar Lander Mission 1 & Hakuto-R M2 “Resilience”
Falcon 9 Block 5
Historical mission record
This page records Falcon 9 Block 5 | Blue Ghost Lunar Lander Mission 1 & Hakuto-R M2 “Resilience” and its reported outcome: Launch Successful. The date above is a historical record.
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Mission status
Launch Successful
Status reported by the mission data provider.
LAUNCH SITEKennedy Space Center, FL, USA
Mission
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.
- Launch vehicle
- Falcon 9 Block 5
- Mission type
- Lunar Exploration
- Destination orbit
- Lunar Orbit
- Launch pad
- Launch Complex 39A
- Provider
- SpaceX
- Recovery
- Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship, The Falcon 9 first stage B1085 will attempt to land on ASDS JRTI after its 5th launch. +1
The vehicle
Published configuration and flight history.
Launch vehicle
Falcon 9 Block 5
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.
- Height
- 70 m
- Diameter
- 3.65 m
- Stages
- 2
- Recorded launches
- 537
- First flight
- 2018-05-11
Recorded timing
This is a mission record, not an upcoming calendar appointment.
39 minute windowPublished target
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WINDOW CLOSES
Target ·
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Weather concerns
Liftoff Winds, Cumulus Cloud Rule
Flight timeline
Planned sequence, not live telemetry. Times are relative to the launch target.
- T−00:38:00
GO for Prop Load
- T−00:35:00
Prop Load
- T−00:35:00
Stage 1 LOX Load
- T−00:16:00
Stage 2 LOX Load
- T−00:07:00
Engine Chill
- T−00:01:00
Startup
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- T−00:01:00
Tank Press
- T−00:00:45
GO for Launch
- T−00:00:03
Ignition
- T+00:00:00
Liftoff
- T+00:01:12
Max-Q
- T+00:02:28
MECO
- T+00:02:31
Stage 2 Separation
- T+00:02:38
SES-1
- T+00:03:28
Fairing Separation
- T+00:06:04
Entry Burn Startup
- T+00:06:30
Entry Burn Shutdown
- T+00:07:49
SECO-1
- T+00:07:58
Stage 1 Landing Burn
- T+00:08:20
Stage 1 Landing
- T+00:58:24
SES-2
- T+00:59:25
SECO-2
- T+01:05:36
Payload Separation
- T+01:26:15
SES-3
- T+01:26:16
SECO-3
- T+01:32:42
Payload Separation
Launch site & orbit
Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
The mission in perspective
Launch site
DestinationLunar Orbit
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Coverage & sources
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