Falcon 9 launched the classified NROL-87 reconnaissance satellite for the National Reconnaissance Office from Vandenberg on new booster B1071, which landed at Landing Zone 4 - the first NRO mission to include a booster landing.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 10 T (est.)
- Flight
- 82nd
- of 638 Falcon 9 Block 5 flights
- Date and time
- 2 February 2022, 20:27 UTC
- Rocket
- Falcon 9 Block 5
- Builder
- SpaceX
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 4E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 2022-009
- Launches in 2022
- 9th of 186
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