SpaceX launches NROL-97 on Falcon Heavy in the NRO’s first mission aboard the rocket
SpaceX launched NROL-97 at 11:54 p.m. ET on Oct. 1 from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Spaceflight Now described it as a classified mission for the National Reconnaissance Office, and both SpaceX and Spaceflight Now said it was the NRO’s first mission aboard Falcon Heavy.
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SpaceX launched NROL-97 on Oct. 1 from Kennedy Space Center aboard Falcon Heavy. Spaceflight Now described it as a classified National Reconnaissance Office mission, and both SpaceX and Spaceflight Now said it was the NRO’s first mission on Falcon Heavy. SpaceX also said the side boosters landed at Cape Canaveral, while Spaceflight Now reported it was Falcon Heavy’s 14th flight and SpaceX’s third Falcon launch of the day.
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