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SpaceX - Falcon 9 - NROL-186 - SLC-4E - Vandenberg Space Force Base, CA - June 28, 2024

Launch Date: June 28 (PDT)Launch Time: 8:14 p.m. PDT (0314 UTC, 05:14 CEST - June 29)Launch Window: 8:14 p.m. PDT - 10:14 p.m. PDTLaunch Site: SLC-4E - Vande...

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NROL-186 Mission

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NROL-186

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Overview

Destination: Low Earth Orbit
Mission: Government/Top Secret

Low Earth Orbit Space Launch Complex 4E Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
B1081 - Of Course I Still Love You

Second batch of satellites for a reconnaissance satellite constellation built by SpaceX and Northrop Grumman for the National Reconnaissance Office to provide imaging and other reconnaissance capabilities.

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Updates

Cosmic_Penguin • June 29, 2024, 5:02 a.m.

Launch success.


Cosmic_Penguin • June 29, 2024, 3:14 a.m.

Liftoff.


LL2 • June 29, 2024, 3 a.m.

Unofficial Re-stream by SPACE AFFAIRS has started


Cosmic_Penguin • June 27, 2024, 7:47 p.m.

Tweaked launch window.


Cosmic_Penguin • June 25, 2024, 9:06 p.m.

Added launch.


Falcon 9

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Configuration: Block 5

Falcon 9 is a two-stage rocket designed and manufactured by SpaceX for the reliable and safe transport of satellites and the Dragon spacecraft into orbit. The Block 5 variant is the fifth major interval aimed at improving upon the ability for rapid reusability.

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Specifications
  • Stages
    2
  • Length
    70.0 m
  • Diameter
    3.65 m
  • Fairing Diameter
    5.2 m
  • Launch Mass
    549.0 T
  • Thrust
    7607.0 kN
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  • Name
    Falcon 9
  • Family
  • Variant
    Block 5
  • Alias
  • Full Name
    Falcon 9 Block 5
Payload Capacity
  • Launch Cost
    $52000000
  • Low Earth Orbit
    22800.0 kg
  • Geostationary Transfer Orbit
    8300.0 kg
  • Direct Geostationary
  • Sun-Synchronous Capacity

Booster Info


B1081

Status: Active


Type: Core
Flight Proven: Yes
First Flight: August 26, 2023
Last Flight: February 15, 2026
Flights: 22
Landings Attempted: 22
Landings Successful: 22
Previous B1081 Flights

Landing Information

The Falcon 9 first stage B1081 has landed on ASDS OCISLY after its 8th flight.

Result: Successful Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship landing at Of Course I Still Love You.

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Space Exploration Technologies Corp., known as SpaceX, is an American aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company headquartered in Hawthorne, California. It was founded in 2002 by entrepreneur Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation costs and enabling the colonization of Mars. SpaceX operates from many pads, on the East Coast of the US they operate from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and historic LC-39A at Kennedy Space Center. They also operate from SLC-4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, usually for polar launches. Another launch site is being developed at Boca Chica, Texas.

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