Scheduled for (UTC) | 2025-04-12, 12:25 |
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Scheduled for (local) | 2025-04-12, 05:25 (PDT) |
Launch site | SLC-4E, Vandenberg SFB, California, USA |
Booster | B1071-24 |
Landing | Of Course I Still Love You |
Payloads | Reconnaissance satellites |
Customer | National Reconnaissance Office |
Target orbit | LEO |
Webcasts
Stream | Link |
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Space Affairs | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytpwrSjVUDA |
Spaceflight Now | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vK8AVVGsU9M |
NASASpaceflight | none |
The Launch Pad | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zXX3qQBko8 |
SpaceX | https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1911030051824349465 |
The Space Devs | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIyJM06iwwI |
Stats
Sourced from NextSpaceflight and r/SpaceX:
☑️ 14th launch from SLC-4E this year
☑️ 4 days, 13:18:50 turnaround for this pad
☑️ 126th landing on OCISLY
☑️ 434th Falcon Family Booster landing, 447th Falcon recovery attempt
☑️ 41st Falcon 9 mission this year, 459th overall
☑️ 41st SpaceX mission this year, 475th (excluding Starship flights)
☑️ 43rd SpaceX launch this year, 492nd overall (including Starship flights)
Mission info
Suspected ninth 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.
Confirmation of 22 satellites by Jonathan McDowell: https://bsky.app/profile/planet4589.bsky.social/post/3ln2gzr77zc2t