Carried the classified NROL-77 payload for the National Reconnaissance Office from Cape Canaveral, the NRO's tenth and final mission of 2025. Booster B1096 completed its fourth flight and made the last-ever Falcon 9 landing at Landing Zone 2.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2 T (est.)
- Flight
- 519th
- of 638 Falcon 9 Block 5 flights
- Date and time
- 9 December 2025, 19:16 UTC
- Rocket
- Falcon 9 Block 5
- Builder
- SpaceX
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 2025-291
- Launches in 2025
- 303rd of 329
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