USSF-36 launched the U.S. Space Force's X-37B spaceplane on its eighth mission (OTV-8), carrying demonstrations including laser communications and a quantum inertial navigation sensor; the booster returned for a landing at Cape Canaveral.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 5 T (est.)
- Flight
- 461st
- of 638 Falcon 9 Block 5 flights
- Date and time
- 22 August 2025, 03:50 UTC
- Rocket
- Falcon 9 Block 5
- Builder
- SpaceX
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 2025-183
- Launches in 2025
- 191st of 329
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