Firefly's Moon Mission Integration

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Blue Ghost Mission

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SpaceX will launch Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander to the moon in mid-January with these 10 NASA payloads

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Blue Ghost lunar lander arrives at NASA 's Kennedy Space Center in Florida for integration with SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.

Blue Ghost Mission 1, named Ghost Riders in the Sky , is scheduled to launch sometime within a six-day window that begins no earlier than mid-January .

Firefly was chosen for the mission through NASA 's Commercial Lunar Payload Services program, which contracts companies to deliver NASA science and payloads to the moon.

Firefly's Blue Ghost mission is expected to last 60 Earth days .

The spacecraft will spend 25 days in Earth orbit before performing a translunar-injection burn.

Blue Ghost will spend another 16 days in lunar orbit, phasing into a descent trajectory to land on the moon.

If all systems perform nominally, program scientists expect to receive their first high-definition images from the lunar surface within 30 minutes .

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