| Scheduled for (UTC) | 2024-11-30, 08:10 | |
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| | Scheduled for (local) | 2024-11-30, 03:10 (EST) | | Launch site | SLC-4E, Vandenberg SFB, California, USA | | Booster | B1088-1 (a rare brand-new booster!) | | Landing | Of Course I Still Love You | | Payload | NROL-126 | | Customer | National Reconnaissance Office | | Mission success criteria | Successful delivery of payload to Geostationary Transfer Orbit |
Webcasts
| Stream | Link | |
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| | Space Affairs | https://youtube.com/watch?v=1igMQu0vUag | Spaceflight Now | https://www.youtube.com/@SpaceflightNowVideo/streams | NASASpaceflight | https://www.youtube.com/@NASASpaceflight/streams | The Launch Pad | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FM-we7fdhtg | SpaceX | https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1862771327394009232 | The Space Devs | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwI55GWsCS4
Stats
Sourced from NextSpaceflight and r/SpaceX:
☑️ 41st launch from SLC-4E this year
☑️ 6 days, 2:44:30 turnaround for this pad
☑️ 53rd consecutive successful Falcon 9 launch (if successful)
☑️ 112th landing on OCISLY
☑️ 380th Falcon family booster landing, 394th Falcon recovery attempt
☑️ 119th Falcon 9 mission this year, 405th Falcon 9 mission overall
☑️ 121st SpaceX mission of 2024, 421st mission overall (excluding Starship flights)
☑️ 125th SpaceX launch this year, 437th SpaceX launch overall (including Starship flights)
Mission info
Fifth 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.
https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1862788510291485044
I guess we now know part of what was on this mission...
https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1862913184015024327
Either the NRO's payload is really light, or some of these "Starlink" sats are actually Starshield sats.