By KXAN News

Jan 15, 2025

Blue Ghost One is now orbiting Earth.

Launching at 1:11 a.m. EST on Jan. 15, a SpaceX rocket carried the lunar lander built by Cedar Park-based Firefly Aerospace Inc. into space. Its eventual destination: the moon.

The 45-day journey from the Earth to the Moon carries with it multiple scientific instruments as part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services, or CLPS, initiative.

The lunar lander will spend 25 days in orbit around the Earth. Each orbit will get longer until it can then get close enough to the moon to pivot to an orbit around it. Blue Ghost will spend four days in transit to the moon and then 16 days in actual orbit.

Blue Ghost One is scheduled to land on the Moon on March 2. Our partners at KXAN have more here.

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