{"id":202015,"date":"2024-12-20T09:08:48","date_gmt":"2024-12-20T15:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/firefly-ispace-lunar-landers-to-share-falcon-9-launch"},"modified":"2024-12-20T09:08:48","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T15:08:48","slug":"firefly-ispace-lunar-landers-to-share-falcon-9-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/firefly-ispace-lunar-landers-to-share-falcon-9-launch","title":{"rendered":"Firefly, ispace lunar landers to share Falcon 9 launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/firefly-ispace-lunar-landers-to-share-falcon-9-launch.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Japanese lunar lander developer ispace has confirmed that its second mission to the moon will launch on the same SpaceX Falcon 9 as Firefly Aerospace\u2019s first lunar lander.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UJA0lAEMqaw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UJA0lAEMqaw\">an online presentation<\/a> late Dec. 17 to discuss preparations for its Resilience lander, Takeshi Hakamada, founder and chief executive of ispace, said that his company\u2019s mission would launch during a six-day window in mid-January on the same rocket launching Firefly Aerospace\u2019s Blue Ghost 1 mission.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will not only be carrying the ispace Resilience lander. Another private company\u2019s lander aiming to reach the moon will also be riding on the same rocket as us,\u201d he said. On-screen graphics stated that lander was Firefly\u2019s Blue Ghost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Japanese lunar lander developer ispace has confirmed that its second mission to the moon will launch on the same SpaceX Falcon 9 as Firefly Aerospace\u2019s first lunar lander. In an online presentation late Dec. 17 to discuss preparations for its Resilience lander, Takeshi Hakamada, founder and chief executive of ispace, said that his [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}