TOKYO, Jan 15 (Reuters) - Texas-based Firefly

Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander and the Resilience lander from

Japan's ispace launched on their trip to the moon on

Wednesday aboard a SpaceX rocket, a company live stream showed.

The two landers will separately be deployed to space more

than an hour after the launch and head to the moon in the coming

months, according to Firefly and ispace, in the latest examples

of the intensifying global rush to explore the lunar surface.