Here's how the Blue Ghost Lander will land on the moon

SpaceX has launched two new missions to the Moon on one Falcon 9 rocket.

The Blue Ghost Lander is built by Firefly Aerospace in Cedar Park , TX , a company that has had some previous experience in spaceflight.

The mission has been titled Ghost Riders In the Sky .

The target area for this mission will be Mare Chrysium, a low lying volcanic region that is littered with impact craters.

The Hakuto R Lander is a do over flight that has been named resilience.

Japan 's mission will be long dead by the time Japan 's entry even arrives.

Blue Ghost is equipped with a new instrument called the Electrodynamic Dust Shield.

It's supposed to prevent build up on the equipment by using electrical currents to repel the dust particles.

And then the Lander will continue to operate for several hours in darkness until its batteries go dead.

And that's what we're up to on the moon this month . But stay tuned for February , when Intuitive Machines makes a second attempt at getting their OVA C to land safely on the lunar surface. This is going to be a really fun year..