Lunar Pathfinder is a mission record in the MoonOpps lunar catalog (2026–2035), tracked for 2026 (NET November 2026 / delivered with Blue Ghost Mission 2). Status: In assembly/integration/test. Class: Lunar communications relay satellite. Source confidence is High — corroborated by clear official or primary sources. The record links 11 actors, 2 payloads, 1 region, and 2 cited sources. Tracked actors include Firefly Aerospace, Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd., NASA, Firefly Aerospace, and others. Payloads include hosts ESA navigation-satellite positioning experiment and space-weather monitor, S-band lunar relay and X-band Earth link. Target region: Lunar orbit; services for polar and far-side missions. Catalog figures come from public sources, not predictions or live scraping, accessed through 2026-06-09.

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2026 / NET November 2026 / delivered with Blue Ghost Mission 2

Lunar Pathfinder

High

Notes

Separated as its own spacecraft even though delivered on the Firefly mission.

Actors by role

Payloads by type

orbiter

hosts ESA navigation-satellite positioning experiment and space-weather monitor

hosts ESA navigation-satellite positioning experiment and space-weather monitor

relay

S-band lunar relay and X-band Earth link

S-band lunar relay and X-band Earth link

Regions

Sources

Publisher

ESA/SSTL BSGN

Source date

Not specified

Accessed

2026-06-09

Updated

Not specified

Publisher

Firefly Aerospace

Source date

Not specified

Accessed

2026-06-09

Updated

Not specified