Scheduled for (UTC) | 2024-10-24, 17:13 |
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Scheduled for (local) | 2024-10-24, 10:13 (PDT) |
Launch site | SLC-4E, Vandenberg SFB, California, USA |
Booster | B1063-21 |
Landing | Of Course I Still Love You |
Payload | Reconnaissance satellites |
Customer | U.S. National Reconnaissance Office |
Mission success criteria | Successful delivery of payload to Low Earth Orbit |
Webcasts
Stream | Link |
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Space Affairs | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VccVHpw5LVI |
Spaceflight Now | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bkf8kMvAEx4 |
NASASpaceflight | |
The Launch Pad | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6C-VvcuMpfk |
SpaceX | https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1849496492161237185 |
The Space Devs | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vYd24JGqMI |
Stats
Sourced from NextSpaceflight and r/SpaceX:
☑️ 33rd consecutive successful Falcon 9 launch (if successful)
☑️ 35th launch from SLC-4E this year
☑️ 4 days, 12:00:00 turnaround for this pad
☑️ 106th landing on OCISLY
☑️ 361st Falcon family booster landing, 368th Falcon recovery attempt
☑️ 100th Falcon 9 mission this year, 386th Falcon 9 mission overall
☑️ 102nd SpaceX mission of 2024, 402nd mission overall (excluding Starship flights)
☑️ 105th SpaceX launch this year, 417th SpaceX launch overall (including Starship flights)
Mission info
Fourth 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.
Stage 1 landing confirmed!
https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1849231160808968584
Next-up: targeting Thursday, October 24 for a Falcon 9 launch of the @NatReconOfc’s NROL-167 mission from California
Liftoff!
MECO, stage sepraation, M-vac ignition, and fairing separation. No views of stage 2 at the request of the NRO.