Space Calendar

"Late 2026" — Launch Blue Ghost Lunar Lander Mission 2 & Elytra Dark orbital transfer vehicle
2026-10-01 | Cape Canaveral SFS FL, USA
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.

"Late 2026" — Launch Falcon 9 / Intuitive Machines IM-3 Nova-C Lander "Trinity"
2026-10-01 | SLC-39A, ~29°N, Kennedy Space Center FL, USA
Under US$77.5M NASA CLPS contract, IM 3rd Nova-C Trinity lander, to Reiner Gamma ‘lunar swirl’ 7.5°N, 59.0°W with 4 NASA payloads: Lunar Vertex, CADRE, MoonLIGHT retroreflector, LUSEM; various private payloads.
