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SpaceX - Falcon 9 - NROL-57 - SLC-4E - Vandenberg SFB - March 20, 2025

Launch Date: March 20, 2025 Launch Time: 11:49 p.m. PDT - March 21, 0649 UTC, 07:49 CET Launch Window: 1:17 a.m. PDT, March 21 Launch Site: SLC-4E - Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, USA Target...

Watch live: SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches from California on U.S. spy satellite agency mission

Watch live coverage as SpaceX launches a Falcon 9 rocket thought to be carrying an undisclosed number of Starshield satellites for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). Liftoff of the NROL-57...

NROL-57 Mission

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NROL-57

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Overview

Destination: Unknown
Mission: Government/Top Secret

Unknown Space Launch Complex 4E Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
B1088 - Landing Zone 4

Eighth batch of satellites for a reconnaissance satellite constellation built by SpaceX and Northrop Grumman for the National Reconnaissance Office to provide imaging and other reconnaissance capabilities.

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Updates


Cosmic_Penguin • March 21, 2025, 6:50 a.m.

Liftoff.


LL2 • March 21, 2025, 6:34 a.m.

Unofficial Re-stream by SPACE AFFAIRS has started


Cosmic_Penguin • March 20, 2025, 4:07 p.m.

GO for launch.


Cosmic_Penguin • March 19, 2025, 3:57 p.m.

NET March 21.


Falcon 9

Family:
Configuration: Block 5

Falcon 9 is a two-stage rocket designed and manufactured by SpaceX for the reliable and safe transport of satellites and the Dragon spacecraft into orbit. The Block 5 variant is the fifth major interval aimed at improving upon the ability for rapid reusability.

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Specifications
  • Stages
    2
  • Length
    70.0 m
  • Diameter
    3.65 m
  • Fairing Diameter
    5.2 m
  • Launch Mass
    549.0 T
  • Thrust
    7607.0 kN
Family
  • Name
    Falcon 9
  • Family
  • Variant
    Block 5
  • Alias
  • Full Name
    Falcon 9 Block 5
Payload Capacity
  • Launch Cost
    $52000000
  • Low Earth Orbit
    22800.0 kg
  • Geostationary Transfer Orbit
    8300.0 kg
  • Direct Geostationary
  • Sun-Synchronous Capacity

Booster Info


B1088

Status: Active


Type: Core
Flight Proven: Yes
First Flight: November 30, 2024
Last Flight: March 17, 2026
Flights: 14
Landings Attempted: 14
Landings Successful: 14
Previous B1088 Flights

Landing Information

The Falcon 9 booster B1088 has returned to the launch site at LZ-4 after its 4th flight.

Result: Successful Return to Launch Site landing at Landing Zone 4.

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Space Exploration Technologies Corp., known as SpaceX, is an American aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company headquartered in Hawthorne, California. It was founded in 2002 by entrepreneur Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation costs and enabling the colonization of Mars. SpaceX operates from many pads, on the East Coast of the US they operate from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and historic LC-39A at Kennedy Space Center. They also operate from SLC-4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, usually for polar launches. Another launch site is being developed at Boca Chica, Texas.

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