Live updates from Tuesday's SpaceX NROL-77 national security mission that launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral ...
A decade of Falcon 9 boosters thundering back to Cape Canaveral’s Landing Zone 2 ended with a classified payload bound for orbit. The National Reconnaissance Office’s NROL-77 mission, launched at 2:16 ...
SpaceX has added another classified mission to its growing national security portfolio, lofting the NROL-77 payload into ...
NROL-77 was the 10th agency mission to launch in 2025, and is the second NRO mission launched with SpaceX under the National Security Space Launch Phase 2 contract. Seven of those 10 missions were ...
If conditions are clear, rocket launches from the Vandenberg Space Force Base can be viewed from several locations as far as Santa Barbara and Los Angeles. Want to watch the rocket get off the ground ...
Because of Arizona's proximity to the launch site, there's a good chance people there can see the spacecraft streak across the sky, especially at night or very early morning. But seeing the rocket may ...
The NRO has launched 11 missions since May 2024 to build out the proliferated LEO constellation. The latest, NROL-148, was ...