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The National Reconnaissance Office logo. This is a list of NRO Launch (NROL) designations for satellites operated by the United States National Reconnaissance Office.Those missions are generally classified, so that their exact purposes and orbital elements are not published.
The Final of eleven dedicated launches of SpaceX/Northrop built Starshield satellites for the National Reconnaissance Office. [7] Q2 (TBD) [186] New Glenn: NG-3 Cape Canaveral LC-36: Blue Origin: ESCAPADE Blue: Space Sciences Laboratory: Areocentric: Magnetospheric science ESCAPADE Gold: Space Sciences Laboratory: Areocentric: Magnetospheric ...
Fourth of five launches for the Space Development Agency's Tracking Layer Tranche 1 (Tranche 1 Tracking Layer D Mission). Q3 (TBD) [39] Vulcan Centaur: Cape Canaveral SLC-41: ULA: TBA: NRO: TBA: TBA NROL-64 Mission. First NRO launch on Vulcan. Q3 (TBD) [40] Vulcan Centaur: Vandenberg SLC-3E: ULA: TBA: NRO: TBA: TBA NROL-83 Mission. First Vulcan ...
The NROL-123 mission, called ‘Live and Let Fly’, was launched on a Rocket Lab Electron launch vehicle at 03:25 a.m. on March 21, 2024, from the Wallops Flight Facility on Virginia's Eastern Shore.
The U.S. Space Force and a Boeing-Lockheed joint venture sent a secret reconnaissance payload to orbit on Tuesday atop a Delta IV Heavy rocket, the last flight of a workhorse launch vehicle brand ...
The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) is a member of the United States Intelligence Community and an agency of the United States Department of Defense which designs, builds, launches, and operates the reconnaissance satellites of the U.S. federal government.
SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in Southern California at 4 a.m. EDT on Wednesday, carrying into space what the NRO said was the "first launch of the NRO's ...
NROL-167 Mission (NRO's Proliferated Architecture Mission). The Fourth of eleven dedicated launches of SpaceX/Northrop built Starshield satellites for the National Reconnaissance Office. [132] 100th Falcon 9 launch in 2024. 26 October 22:47 [179] Falcon 9 Block 5: Starlink Group 10-8 Cape Canaveral SLC-40: SpaceX: Starlink × 22 SpaceX: Low ...