Falcon 9 launched NROL-76, a classified payload for the US National Reconnaissance Office and SpaceX's first dedicated national-security mission. The first stage landed back at Cape Canaveral.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.7 T (est.)
- Flight
- 13th
- of 24 Falcon 9 Full Thrust flights
- Date and time
- 1 May 2017, 11:15 UTC
- Rocket
- Falcon 9 Full Thrust
- Builder
- SpaceX
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 2017-022
- Launches in 2017
- 23rd of 90
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