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

Mission

Blue Ghost Lunar Lander Mission 1 & Hakuto-R M2 “Resilience” on Falcon 9 Block 5. Wed 15 Jan 2025, 06:11:39 UTC. Reported outcome: Success. Launch site: Launch Complex 39A. Source: Launch Library 2.

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.

Mission type

Lunar Exploration

Orbit

Lunar Orbit

Launch timeline

Times are relative to liftoff.

1. T-38 minWed 15 Jan, 06:33 CET

   GO for Prop Load

   Launch director verifies go for propellant load

2. T-35 minWed 15 Jan, 06:36 CET

   Prop Load

   Start of propelland loading

3. T-35 minWed 15 Jan, 06:36 CET

   Stage 1 LOX Load

   Start of liquid oxygen loading in the first stage

4. T-16 minWed 15 Jan, 06:55 CET

   Stage 2 LOX Load

   Start of liquid oxygen loading in the second stage

5. T-7 minWed 15 Jan, 07:04 CET

   Engine Chill

   Start of engine chilling

6. T-1 minWed 15 Jan, 07:10 CET

   Startup

   The onboard computer takes control over the countdown and runs last checks

7. T-1 minWed 15 Jan, 07:10 CET

   Tank Press

   Fuel tanks are pressurized to flight levels

8. T-45 sWed 15 Jan, 07:10 CET

   GO for Launch

   Launch director verifies go for launch

9. T-3 sWed 15 Jan, 07:11 CET

   Ignition

   Start of the engine ignition sequence

10. T-0Wed 15 Jan, 07:11 CET

    Liftoff

    First upwards movement of the rocket

11. T+1 min 12 sWed 15 Jan, 07:12 CET

    Max-Q

    Maximum dynamic pressure

12. T+2 min 28 sWed 15 Jan, 07:14 CET

    MECO

    Cut-off of the main engine

13. T+2 min 31 sWed 15 Jan, 07:14 CET

    Stage 2 Separation

    Separation of the second stage from the first

14. T+2 min 38 sWed 15 Jan, 07:14 CET

    SES-1

    First start of the second engine

15. T+3 min 28 sWed 15 Jan, 07:15 CET

    Fairing Separation

    Separation of the payload fairing

16. T+6 min 4 sWed 15 Jan, 07:17 CET

    Entry Burn Startup

    Start of the atmospheric entry burn

17. T+6 min 30 sWed 15 Jan, 07:18 CET

    Entry Burn Shutdown

    End of the atmospheric entry burn

18. T+7 min 49 sWed 15 Jan, 07:19 CET

    SECO-1

    First cut-off of the second engine

19. T+7 min 58 sWed 15 Jan, 07:19 CET

    Stage 1 Landing Burn

    Start of the first stage landing burn

20. T+8 min 20 sWed 15 Jan, 07:19 CET

    Stage 1 Landing

    Landing of the first stage

21. T+58 min 24 sWed 15 Jan, 08:10 CET

    SES-2

    Second start of the second engine

22. T+59 min 25 sWed 15 Jan, 08:11 CET

    SECO-2

    Second cut-off of the second engine

23. T+1 h 5 min 36 sWed 15 Jan, 08:17 CET

    Payload Separation

    Final deployment of the payload from the rocket

24. T+1 h 26 min 15 sWed 15 Jan, 08:37 CET

    SES-3

    Third start of the second engine

25. T+1 h 26 min 16 sWed 15 Jan, 08:37 CET

    SECO-3

    Third cut-off of the second engine

26. T+1 h 32 min 42 sWed 15 Jan, 08:44 CET

    Payload Separation

    Final deployment of the payload from the rocket

Slip history

Changes recorded by Space Right Now

No changes since we started tracking on Sat 10 Oct 2026, 11:14 UTC.

Launch pad

Launch Complex 39A

Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA (US)

Coordinates: 28.60822681, -80.60428186