SpaceX launched not one but two lunar landers to the Moon on the same mission, on the 100th launch from the same pad where the Apollo 11 crew launched to the Moon. A Falcon 9 successfully lifted off during an instantaneous window on Wednesday, Jan. 15, at 1:11 AM EST (06:11 UTC) from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, with Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost and ispace’s HAKUTO-R M2 Resilience landers aboard, bound for different parts of the lunar surface.
The Falcon booster, B1085, flew on a southeast trajectory out of the Cape. The two lunar landers successfully separated and are now on different trajectories to the Moon. The booster safely landed on the Just Read the Instructions droneship out in the Atlantic.
B1085 started its career with the Starlink 10-5 mission and has flown the Crew-9, Starlink 6-77, and GPS III-7 missions before the Blue Ghost/HAKUTO-R launch. This flight, the eighth Falcon 9 launch of 2025, was the first time two lander spacecraft have launched to the Moon on the same rocket.