Hakuto-R M1 & Lunar Flashlight
Falcon 9 Block 5
SpaceX
Mission
Hakuto-R M1 & Lunar Flashlight
Type: Lunar Exploration
Launch Cost: $52,000,000
First mission of the Hakuto-R commercial lunar lander developed by private Japanese company ispace.
Rideshare includes Lunar Flashlight, NASA’s cubesat that will search for water ice at the Moon’s South Pole.
Trajectory
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Location
Space Launch Complex 40
Cape Canaveral, FL, USA
909 rockets have launched from Cape Canaveral, FL, USA.
Core Landing
B1073 has successfully landed back at the launch site after its fifth flight.
Landing Zone 2 – LZ-2
LZ-2 Pad located at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at the previous LC-13. Directly next to LZ-1
Return to Launch Site – RTLS
A return to launch site usually means that after stage separation the booster flips and does a burn back towards the launch site, landing near where it initially launched from.
Agency
SpaceX – SpX
- Type: Commercial
- Abbreviation: SpX
- Administration: CEO: Elon Musk
- Founded: 2002
- Launchers: Falcon | Starship
- Spacecraft: Dragon
- Country: USA
Space Exploration Technologies Corp., known as SpaceX, is an American aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company headquartered in Hawthorne, California. It was founded in 2002 by entrepreneur Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation costs and enabling the colonization of Mars. SpaceX operates from many pads, on the East Coast of the US they operate from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and historic LC-39A at Kennedy Space Center. They also operate from SLC-4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, usually for polar launches. Another launch site is being developed at Boca Chica, Texas.
