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Falcon Heavy | NROL-97
SpaceX · Falcon Heavy
The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).
Launch window 03:53–04:42 UTC, with a 90% weather probability at the time of writing.
The mission
Classified payload for the US National Reconnaissance Office.
Vehicle and site
- Rocket
- Falcon Heavy
- Family
- Falcon
- Mission
- NROL-97
- Mission type
- Government/Top Secret
- Pad
- Launch Complex 39A
- Location
- Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- Coordinates
- 28.6082°, -80.6043°
The Falcon Heavy is a variant of the Falcon 9 full thrust launch vehicle and consists of a standard Falcon 9 rocket core, with two additional boosters derived from the Falcon 9 first stage.
SpaceX
Space Exploration Technologies Corp., known as SpaceX, is an American aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company headquartered in Hawthorne, California. It was founded in 2002 by entrepreneur Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation costs and enabling the colonization of Mars. SpaceX operates from many pads, on the East Coast of the US they operate from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and historic LC-39A at Kennedy Space Center. They also operate from SLC-4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, usually for polar launches. Another launch site is being developed at Boca Chica, Texas.
- Launches to date
- 735
- Successful
- 720
- Failed
- 15
- Consecutive successes
- 220
Watch and read
- SpaceX NROL-97
- SpaceX Falcon Heavy launches its first mission for U.S. spy satellite agency
- SpaceX Falcon Heavy Launches NROL-97
- NROL-97 Mission
- spacex.com
- Falcon Heavy on Wikipedia
- Launch Complex 39A on Wikipedia
Schedule from Launch Library 2, rebuilt hourly. Dates slip: a time given to the minute is a target, not a promise, and this page reflects the schedule as it stood at the last build. All upcoming launches.