WATCH LIVE: Firefly Blue Ghost Mission 1 Launch to the Moon Set for Tonight at Kennedy Space Center
By Space Coast Daily // January 14, 2025
coverage of the launch can be seen on Space Coast Daily TV
ABOVE VIDEO: Firefly Blue Ghost Mission 1 Launch to the Moon Set for Tonight from Kennedy Space Center
BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA – Get ready for a new launch as Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lunar lander will lift off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center tonight in Florida on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
SpaceX and Firefly Aerospace are targeting 1:11 a.m. EST Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025, for launch.
The lander will carry 10 NASA science investigations to the Moon’s surface.
Following launch, the lander will spend approximately 45 days in transit to the Moon before landing on the lunar surface in early March 2025. T
he 10 NASA payloads aboard the lander aim to test and demonstrate lunar subsurface drilling technology, regolith sample collection capabilities, global navigation satellite system abilities, radiation tolerant computing, and lunar dust mitigation methods.
The results of these investigations could help further our understanding of the Moon’s environment and help prepare for future human missions to the lunar surface as part of the agency’s Moon to Mars exploration approach.
Coverage of the launch can be seen on Space Coast Daily TV.
