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NROL-113 Launch Thread! (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

| Scheduled for (UTC) | 2024-09-06, 03:20 | |


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| | Scheduled for (local) | 2024-09-05, 20:20 (PDT) | | Launch site | SLC-4E, Vandenberg SFB, California, USA | | Booster | B1063-20 | | Landing | Of Course I Still Love You | | Payload | NROL-113 | | Customer | National Reconnaissance Office | | Mission success criteria | Successful delivery of payload to LEO |

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| | Space Affairs | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEHplxmatco | Spaceflight Now | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGUkhL4FCIQ | NASASpaceflight | | The Launch Pad | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-QXLkgPp48 | SpaceX | https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1831892881591689372 | The Space Devs |

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☑️ 17th consecutive successful Falcon 9 launch (if successful)

☑️ 29th launch from SLC-4E this year

☑️ 5 days, 18:32:00 turnaround for this pad

☑️ 56 day turnaround for B1063

☑️ 101st landing on OCISLY

☑️ 346th Falcon Family Booster landing, 357th Falcon recovery attempt

☑️ 86th Falcon 9 mission this year, 372nd Falcon 9 mission overall

☑️ 87th SpaceX mission of 2024, 387th mission overall (excluding Starship flights)

☑️ 89th SpaceX launch this year, 400th SpaceX launch overall (including Starship flights)

Mission info

Third 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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

#400, hell yeah, get the future launched. They're like a crew of Zefram Cochranes over there- as nutty as they are brilliant. Just nutty enough not to care about criticism from paper shufflers who lack imagination and courage.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1831446939675836627

Targeting Thursday, September 5 for a Falcon 9 launch of the @NatReconOfc NROL-113 mission from California

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Stage 1 landing confirmed!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

MECO, stage separation, M-vac ignition, and fairing separation.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

M-vac shutdown. No views of the second stage, at the request of the NRO. Webcast ending.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Hosted webcast has started. Veronica (Ronnie) Foreman is hosting.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Propellant load is already under way: https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1831885087669137623

All systems are looking good, weather is favorable, and propellant load is about to begin for today’s launch of the @NatReconOfc's NROL-113 mission from California

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Norminal entry burn.