Blue Ghost Mission 1
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Blue Ghost Mission 1 was a robotic Moon landing mission conducted by Firefly Aerospace. The spacecraft soft-landed on the lunar surface on March 2, 2025, making Firefly the first commercial company to
Falcon 9 rocket at Kennedy Space Center shortly before the launch of Blue Ghost Mission 1 and Hakuto-R Mission 2
Location of Mare Crisium on the Moon, highlighted in red
Regolith Adherence Characterization (RAC) payload
Trifid and Lagoon nebulae
Hakuto-R Mission 2
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Hakuto-R Mission 2, also called Resilience, was a robotic lunar landing mission launched on 15 January 2025. Developed by the Japanese company ispace, the lander was intended to deliver a small rover
Blue Ghost Mission 1
…The Blue Ghost lunar lander was launched from Kennedy Space Center on January 15, 2025, using a SpaceX Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket that also carried the Hakuto-R Mission 2 lander. At 08:34 UTC on March 2, 2025, it delivered 10 payloads to the lunar surface within Mare Crisium, a 500-kilometer-wide (310 mi) lunar basin…
Full-size model of Hakuto-R
Mare Frigoris
TENACIOUS rover