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Falcon 9 Block 5 | Blue Ghost Lunar Lander Mission 1 & Hakuto-R M2 “Resilience”

Mission

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

Type:

Lunar Exploration

Orbit:

Lunar Orbit

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.

Status

Launch Successful

The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).

Pad

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Launch Complex 39A

USA

Latitude: 28.60822681

longitude: -80.60428186

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Location

Timezone:

America/New_York

Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

The John F. Kennedy Space Center, located on Merritt Island, Florida, is one of NASA's ten field centers. Since 1968, KSC has been NASA's primary launch center of American spaceflight, research, and technology. Launch operations for the Apollo, Skylab and Space Shuttle programs were carried out from Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39 and managed by KSC. Located on the east coast of Florida, KSC is adjacent to Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS).

Location total Launch count:

261

Location total Landing count:

0

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Rocket

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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.

Family: Falcon

Variant: Block 5

Details

Min stage: 1

Max stage: 2m

Length: 70.0m

Diameter: 3.65

First Flight: May 11, 2018

Total launch count: 403

Successful launches: 402

Failed launches: 1

Pending launches: 108

Consecutive successful launches: 105

Low Earth Orbit (LEO) capacity: 22800kg

Launch cost: US$52000000

Apogee: 200km

Attempted landings: 395

Successful landings: 390

Failed landings: 5

Consecutive successful landings: 90

Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO) capacity: 8300kg

Manufacturer

SpaceX

Type:

Commercial

None

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Agency

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SpaceX

Type: Commercial

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