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Lunar lander mission by Blue Origin

Mark 1 Pathfinder Mission
Spacecraft properties

Mission type	Lunar landing
Operator	Blue Origin


Spacecraft	MK1-SN001


Start of mission
Launch date	March 2025
Rocket	New Glenn
Launch site	Cape Canaveral, LC‑36

Mark 1 Pathfinder Mission is an upcoming American lunar lander mission developed by Blue Origin. The pathfinder mission is meant to prove out the capabilities of the BE-7 engine as well as the MK1 lunar lander platform.

History

Main article: Blue Moon (spacecraft)

The Mark 1 or MK1 lunar lander is a lunar lander developed by Blue Origin for cargo transport. It is powered by a single BE-7 engine with a cargo capacity of up to 3,000 kg. The pathfinder mission will carry a NASA payload dubbed Stereo Cameras for Lunar Plume Surface Studies, or SCALPSS, which is a set of cameras designed to monitor how moon dust reacts to the engines of landers as they head in for touchdown.

References

Foust, Jeff (12 August 2024). "NASA payload to fly on first Blue Origin lunar lander mission". SpaceNews. Retrieved 14 January 2025.
Kuhr, Jack (6 March 2024). "Blue Origin's 2025 Lunar Landing Goal". Payload. Retrieved 14 January 2025.
Wattles, Jackie (14 January 2025). "The next leg of the new moon race is about to kick off — and it could be the most exciting yet". CNN. Retrieved 14 January 2025.

Artemis program

Missions

Uncrewed	Artemis I (2022) Peregrine Mission One (2024) IM-1 (2024) Blue Ghost M1 (2024) IM-2 (2025)
Crewed	Artemis II (2025) Artemis III (2026) Artemis IV (2028) Artemis V (2030)

Agencies

Facilities

Rockets

Crewed spacecraft

Robotic spacecraft

Category

Lunar landing missions

Active

Crewed	none
Robotic	Chang'e 4 Chang'e 6

Past

Crewed	Apollo 11 12 14 15 16 17
Robotic	Chandrayaan-3 Chang'e 3 5 Luna 9 13 16 17 20 21 23 24 IM-1 EagleCam SLIM Surveyor 1 3 5 6 7

Failed

Planned

Artemis	Artemis III (2026) IV (2028) V (2030) VI (2031) VII (2032)
CLEP	7 (2026) 8 (2028)
CLPS	Blue Ghost M1 (2025) M2 (2026) IM-2 (2025) IM-3 (2025)
Luna-Glob	Luna 27 (2028) 28 (2030)
Others	Beresheet 2 (SpaceIL, 2025) Hakuto-R M2 (ispace, 2025) M3 (2026)

Proposed

CLPS	Redwire Draper Firefly Masten MoonEx OrbitBeyond McCandless

Lunar rovers

Active

Yutu-2 (2019–present, on Chang'e 4)

Past

Lunokhod	Lunokhod 0 (1A) (1969) Lunokhod 1 (1970–1971, on Luna 17) Lunokhod 2 (1973, on Luna 21)
Apollo	Lunar Roving Vehicle (1971, Apollo 15) LRV-2 (1972, Apollo 16) LRV-3 (1972, Apollo 17)
CLEP	Yutu (2013–2016, on Chang'e 3) Yidong Xiangji (2024, on Chang'e 6)
Chandrayaan	Pragyan (2019, on Chandrayaan-2) Pragyan (2023, on Chandrayaan-3)
Rashid	Rashid (2022–2023, on Hakuto-R Mission 1)
CLPS	Iris (2024, on Peregrine Mission One) Colmena × 5 (2024, on Peregrine Mission One)
JAXA	Sora-Q (2022–2023, on Hakuto-R Mission 1) LEV-1 (2024, on SLIM) LEV-2 (Sora-Q) (2024, on SLIM)

Planned

Proposed

Cancelled

Missions are ordered by launch date. Sign indicates failure en route or before intended mission data returned.

Category:

Missions to the Moon

History

See also

References