SpaceX Launches Hakuto-R M1, Lunar Flashlight Mission

Japanese company ispace’s Hakuto-R M1 lunar lander was successfully deployed into orbit approximately 47 minuters after being launched by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, on 11 December 2022, at 0738 UTC. NASA's tiny moon probe Lunar Flashlight was ejected 6 minutes later from the Falcon 9 to a lunar transfer orbit