by SpaceX USA

AYAP-1

Planned April 2027

Turkey's first lunar spacecraft, built for the Turkish Space Agency, is designed to reach a polar orbit about 100 km above the Moon and end its mission with a controlled crash into the surface. A Turkish-developed hybrid engine is meant to handle both the orbit-raising burns and the final braking burn.

launching from SLC-40 Canaveral

aboard Falcon 9 Block 5 into Lunar

Payload

AYAP-1

Lunar Orbiter and Probe

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