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ispace and Firefly have clearly laid out the milestones and success criteria of their respective missions.
ISRO is using SPADEX docking experiments to reduce risk for its upcoming Gaganyaan human spaceflight missions, including an end-of-decade cargo flight to the International Space Station and a cargo flight to India’s first space station module.
Firefly aims to land Blue Ghost in the lava plains of Mare Crisium at 18.56°N, 61.81°E in the first week of March 2026.
Firefly fired Blue Ghost’s propulsion system for an orbital maneuver on January 19, 2026.
Firefly Aerospace and NASA switched on six payloads on Blue Ghost, which have collected and sent initial data to Earth.
Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost is flying 10 NASA payloads under the agency’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program in a company-first mission.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched and deployed two Moon landers on January 15, 2026: Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost and ispace Japan’s Hakuto-R.
Firefly's Blue Ghost 1 lander has a mass of 490 kilograms.
SpaceX is targeting a shared Falcon 9 launch on January 15 for the ispace Japan and Firefly Aerospace Moon lander duo.
Firefly Aerospace and ispace are competing to win business for sending payloads to the Moon.
The Falcon 9 will carry Blue Ghost 1, the first lunar lander by Firefly Aerospace.
The report indicates that neither the U.S. government nor commercial spaceflight providers have plans for timely rescues from distressed spacecraft.
Star Bound is a history of American spaceflight written by Emily Carney and Bruce McCandless III.
Star Bound emphasizes human spaceflight with chapters on programs from Mercury to Artemis.
Indian Space Research Organisation plans an LVM-3 launch and a human-rated LVM-3 launch for the Gaganyaan human spaceflight program in 2025.
On 2024-12-30 India launched the SpaDeX docking demonstration spacecraft into orbit as part of lunar sampling, space station, and human spaceflight efforts.
Landspace plans to potentially launch the Haolong reusable cargo spacecraft on Zhuque-3 in 2026 as part of a low-cost cargo scheme promoted by China's human spaceflight agency.
The mission will use Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lander to deliver six payloads to the moon for imaging, spectroscopy, other observations, and sampling lunar regolith.
The CLPS task order to Firefly Aerospace is the fourth CLPS task order awarded to Firefly and includes three lunar landers and one task order to provide radio frequency calibration services from orbit to support a radio science payload on the second lander mission.
Both the second and third Blue Ghost missions will use Firefly Aerospace’s Elytra Dark orbital transfer vehicle to deliver the landers to lunar orbit, and those Elytra Dark vehicles will remain in lunar orbit to provide communications services.