SpaceX Launches NRO Spy Satellite Written 3 February 2022

Space News reports that a SpaceX Falcon 9 “launched a U.S. government spy satellite into orbit Feb. 2 from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California.” The NROL-87 payload, launched from Space Launch Complex 4 East at 3:28 p.m. Eastern, “was the National Reconnaissance Office’s first space mission of the year and the first orbital launch of 2022 from the Western Range.” The AP reports that the Falcon’s first stage “flew back to the seaside base northwest of Los Angeles and landed so that it can be reused in a future NRO mission.”
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