A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched two lunar landers from Florida on Wednesday for Firefly Aerospace and ispace. This video shows the launch and the separation of the Blue Ghost lander in space.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched lunar landers to the moon for two commercial missions on Wednesday, January 15.

The second Florida launch of 2025 is set to light up the sky on Monday. While SpaceX has yet to confirm, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) lists the Starlink 6-71 mission as occurring during a window which runs from 11:44 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. ET Monday afternoon. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will lift off from Kennedy Space Center's Pad 39A.

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Merritt Island, United States - January 15, 2025 A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches with two commercial lunar landers from Launch Complex-39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on Jan. 15, 2025.

In a monumental step forward for private lunar exploration, SpaceX has successfully launched two groundbreaking moon landers—Blue Ghost and Resilience—aboard a Falcon 9 rocket on January 15, 2025. Developed by Texas-based Firefly Aerospace and Tokyo-based ispace,

In 2025, our natural satellite once again becomes the focus of unmanned private missions supported by NASA. The 100th SpaceX flight from the Kennedy Space Center holds special significance because the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched two lunar missions simultaneously.