US EditionSpaceX to launch two moon missions on one rocket
- SpaceX launched two lunar landers aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center at 1:11 a.m. on Wednesday.
- Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost rover will take about 45 days to reach the moon after separating from the rocket.
- ISpace's Resilience lander will take up to five months to reach the moon's surface to deploy a rover and scoop regolith.
- NASA is backing the mission, which will be its biggest commercial delivery to the moon if successful.
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Elon Musk's SpaceX to launch two lunar probes early Wednesday morning
The two missions will start together at approximately 1:11 a.m. Eastern, out of Florida. But the SpaceX rocket will then separate the two robotic landers and a small rover for two separate missions.
On Wednesday, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket sent – as part of a “2-in-1” mission to the Moon – two probes from private companies that have different trajectories and will arrive…
SpaceX Launches Two Lunar Landers to Moon on One Rocket - teleSUR English
The mission seeks to enhance understanding of the Moon’s environment and support future human missions to its surface. On early Wednesday, SpaceX launched two robotic lunar landers developed by two countries to the Moon on one rocket. RELATED: NASA’s Parker Space Probe Approaches the Sun The two landers are the Blue Ghost lander from U.S. private aerospace company Firefly Aerospace and the RESILIENCE lander from Japanese firm ispace. The landers…
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