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SpaceX 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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Ars Technica

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Two lunar landers are on the way to the Moon after SpaceX’s double moonshot

The landers were developed by Texas-based Firefly Aerospace and a Japanese startup named ispace.

1 month ago·United States

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Just the News

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.

1 month ago·Washington, United States

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Hot News

SpaceX launched a rocket on Wednesday that sent two probes from private companies to the surface of the Moon - HotNews.ro

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…

1 month ago·Romania

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The Globe & Mail

SpaceX launches two landers to the moon, signalling next wave of private lunar missions

Wednesday’s launch was the first to send two landers to the moon on the same rocket and carried some components built in Canada, among other global contractors

1 month ago·Canada

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Telesur

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…

1 month ago·Caracas, Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of

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