Blue Moon Mark 1 Pathfinder ("Endurance")

Planned

Facts last verified against primary sources on 2026-10-13 · dates are a estimate

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Facts

Operator: Blue Origin
Country: US
Type: lander
Launch: no earlier than Jan 2027

Landing site

Shackleton connecting ridge, south pole (target region; landing coordinates not published) · 89.5000°S 135.2000°W ± 10000 m

Planned landing site · source: www.nasa.gov

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Landed

Planned landing site

Crash or hard landing

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Timeline

no earlier than Jan 2027Launch (New Glenn), early 2027planned

Links

NASA: CLPS flight, Blue Origin's Blue Moon Mark 1official
Blue Origin: Blue Moonofficial
Aerospace America: NASA expects one lunar launch this yearpress

Sources

Generated 2026-10-13T00:00:00Z

launch_utc is the first instant of the published period: NASA's event page (updated 22 Sep 2026) says launch in January 2027 on New Glenn; schedule_confidence 'estimate'. The slip followed the May 2026 New Glenn explosion on the pad. NASA: 'The mission will land on the Shackleton Connecting Ridge'. No landing coordinates or ellipse are published: landing_site is the target REGION, centred on the LROC NAC DTM site SHACKRDGE02 on the ridge (89.50°S, 135.2°W; docs/data-sources/lroc-nac.md) with a 10 km radius that is OUR CHOICE, not from a source (docs/questions.md #20); it is not a landing point. Carries NASA SCALPSS 1.x plume cameras and a laser retroreflector array.