NROL-153 carried a classified batch of Starshield satellites for the National Reconnaissance Office's proliferated constellation, the NRO's first launch of 2025, from Vandenberg; the booster landed on the Pacific droneship Of Course I Still Love You on its 22nd flight.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 14.6 T
- Flight
- 364th
- of 638 Falcon 9 Block 5 flights
- Date and time
- 10 January 2025, 03:53 UTC
- Rocket
- Falcon 9 Block 5
- Builder
- SpaceX
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 4E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 2025-005
- Launches in 2025
- 5th of 329
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