| Scheduled for (UTC) | 2024-09-06, 03:20 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
Webcasts
| Stream | Link |
|---|---|
| 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 |
Stats
Sourced from NextSpaceflight and r/SpaceX:
☑️ 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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#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.
Hosted webcast has started. Veronica (Ronnie) Foreman is hosting.
Norminal entry burn.
Liftoff!
MECO, stage separation, M-vac ignition, and fairing separation.
Stage 1 landing confirmed!
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
https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1831446939675836627
Targeting Thursday, September 5 for a Falcon 9 launch of the @NatReconOfc NROL-113 mission from California
M-vac shutdown. No views of the second stage, at the request of the NRO. Webcast ending.
