A Falcon 9 launched the classified NROL-85 mission for the National Reconnaissance Office from Vandenberg. It was the NRO's first flight on a reused booster, and the first stage returned for the first-ever West Coast landing back at the launch site.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2 T (est.)
- Flight
- 91st
- of 638 Falcon 9 Block 5 flights
- Date and time
- 17 April 2022, 13:13 UTC
- Rocket
- Falcon 9 Block 5
- Builder
- SpaceX
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 4E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 2022-040
- Launches in 2022
- 41st of 186
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