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GO! - SpaceX - Falcon 9 - NROL-69 - SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral Space Force Station - March 24, 2025

Launch Date: March 24, 2025 Launch Time: 1:48 p.m. EDT, 1748 UTC, 18:48 CET Launch Window: Instantaneous launch window Launch Site: SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, USA Targeted O...

Watch live: SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches NROL-69 from Cape Canaveral for NRO, U.S. Space Force

Watch live coverage as SpaceX launches a Falcon 9 rocket with the NROL-69 mission for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) in partnership with the U.S. Space Force's Space Systems Command. Li...

🚀 SpaceX Falcon 9 Launches NROL-69

SpaceX Falcon 9 launch of a classified mission for the National Reconnaissance Office. Launch T0: March 24th at 1:48PM EDT (17:48 UTC) Backup T0: March 25th at 1:34PM EDT (17:34 UTC) Mission: F9 lau...

NROL-69 Mission

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NROL-69

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Overview

Destination: Unknown
Mission: Government/Top Secret

Unknown Space Launch Complex 40 Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA Probability: 90%
B1092 - Landing Zone 1

Classified payload for the US National Reconnaissance Office

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Updates

hitura-nobad • March 24, 2025, 7:27 p.m.

Launch successful.


hitura-nobad • March 24, 2025, 5:49 p.m.

Liftoff!


LL2 • March 24, 2025, 5:33 p.m.

Unofficial Re-stream by SPACE AFFAIRS has started



Cosmic_Penguin • March 22, 2025, 1:29 a.m.

GO for launch.


Falcon 9

Family:
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
  • Minimum Stage
    1
  • Max Stage
    2
  • Length
    70.0 m
  • Diameter
    3.65 m
  • Fairing Diameter
    5.2 m
  • Launch Mass
    549.0 T
  • Thrust
    7607.0 kN
Family
  • Name
    Falcon 9
  • Family
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  • 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


B1092

Status: Active


Type: Core
Flight Proven: Yes
First Flight: February 27, 2025
Last Flight: May 30, 2025
Flights: 4
Landings Attempted: 4
Landings Successful: 4
Previous B1092 Flights

Landing Information

The Falcon 9 first stage B1092 has landed back at the launch site after its 2nd flight.

Result: Successful Return to Launch Site landing at Landing Zone 1.

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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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