“Later in 2027” — Launch Blue Ghost Lunar Lander Mission 2 & Elytra Dark orbital transfer vehicle
June 1, 2027
Firefly Aerospace second lunar lander mission under $112M NASA CLPS to land on lunar far side with NASA payloads (RadPC, LuSEE-Night telescope, JPL User Terminal (UT), Australia’s Seismic Payload for Interplanetary Discovery, Exploration, and Research (SPIDER) by Fleet Space Technologies) and commercial payloads; will deploy to lunar orbit ESA Lunar Pathfinder satellite and Elytra Dark for communications relay.
Blue Ghost Mission 2 has officially slipped and is now scheduled to launch later in 2027.
