The Rapid Response Trailblazer-1 (RRT-1) mission launched the GPS III SV07 navigation satellite for the U.S. Space Force, demonstrating compression of a typical two-year national security launch planning cycle to under six months; the booster landed on A Shortfall of Gravitas.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- MEO
- Medium Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 4 T
- Flight
- 353rd
- of 638 Falcon 9 Block 5 flights
- Date and time
- 17 December 2024, 00:52 UTC
- Rocket
- Falcon 9 Block 5
- Builder
- SpaceX
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Navigation
- International designator
- 2024-242
- Launches in 2024
- 249th of 263
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