159. start RN F9 w 2025 (576. w sumie).
Ostatni start SpaceX dla NRO w 2025.
Misja ma na celu weryfikację technologii umożliwiających niezwykle szybką transmisję silnie zaszyfrowanych danych na poziomie taktycznym.
Zdolność ta będzie logicznie wykorzystywana również przez klasyczne komponenty sił zbrojnych USA i ich sojuszników, zwłaszcza podczas operacji specjalnych.Tajny satelita 09.12. o 19:16:25 z Cape Canaveral wystrzelona została RN Falcon-9R, która wyniosła w ramach misji NRO L-77 na orbitę o spodziewanych parametrach: hp=1000 km, ha-1200 km, i=63,4 tajnego satelitę, prawdopodobnie następcę systemu Intruder (zwiadu elektronicznego mórz i oceanów).
Pierwszy stopień RN (B1096.4) w T+8' wylądował na LZ-2. Było to ostatnie lądowanie Falcona na LZ-2.
http://lk.astronautilus.pl/n251201.htm#15https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/noss-4.htmhttps://x.com/Kosmo_Michal/status/1998497466929525184https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=63538.0NROL-77 launch and Falcon 9 first stage landinghttps://x.com/SpaceX/status/1998468771879522558SpaceX @SpaceX Liftoff!
https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1998472289000583349SpaceX @SpaceX
Falcon 9’s first stage lands on LZ-2
https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1998474346952597522SpaceX @SpaceX 2:18 AM · Dec 10, 2025
Falcon 9 launches NROL-77 from Florida, completing our 11th National Security Space Launch this year and delivering assured access to space
https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1998562992233816417NROL-77 was the third mission Falcon 9 launched in 2025 on behalf of the Space Systems Command and National Reconnaissance Office, continuing to deliver assured access to space.
https://www.spacex.com/launches/nrol77NRO @NRO_gov 4:01 PM · Dec 10, 2025
Yesterday, NROL-77 successfully launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. 🚀
“As space becomes increasingly contested, this partnership with @USSF_SSC enables us to rapidly deploy advanced intelligence capabilities,” said NRO’s Director of Space Launch, Col. Cantu
https://x.com/NRO_gov/status/1998769974232453513https://x.com/NRO_gov/status/1998528175152746655SpaceX launches classified payload for the National Reconnaissance OfficeDecember 9, 2025 Will Robinson-Smith
(...) SpaceX launched its final national security payload of the year for the nation’s secretive spy satellite agency, the National Reconnaissance Office. The Tuesday afternoon flight was also the
final Falcon 9 booster recovery at Landing Zone 2 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. (...)
The mission, dubbed National Reconnaissance Office Launch 77 (NROL-77), includes at least one payload, which the intelligence-gathering agency only described as being “designed, built, and operated by NRO.” (...)
SpaceX used Falcon 9 first stage booster B1096. This was its fourth launch after previously flying NASA’s IMAP, Amazon’s Kuiper Falcon 01 and Starlink 6-87.
Nearly eight and a half minutes after liftoff, B1096 returned to the Florida Peninsula with a touchdown at Landing Zone 2 (LZ-2). This was the 16th touchdown at LZ-2 and the 547th booster landing to date for SpaceX. (...)
The NROL-77 mission is the second NRO mission launched by SpaceX as part of the National Security Space Launch (NSSL) Phase 2 contract awarded in August 2020. The contract was broken up to assign missions between SpaceX and United Launch Alliance (ULA) over five order years for specific missions.
This is the first mission that comes from Order Year 5 that was announced on Oct. 31, 2023. It was one of ten missions assigned to SpaceX that year, which has a combined value of $1.236 billion. (...)
Among the ten NRO missions launched in 2025, nine of them flew on Falcon 9 rockets:
Jan. 09 – NROL-153
Jan. 14 – Transporter-12 (rideshare payload)
Mar. 14 – Transporter-13 (rideshare payload)
Mar. 20 – NROL-57
Mar. 24 – NROL-69
Apr. 12 – NROL-192
Apr. 16 – NROL-174 (launched on Minotaur 4 rocket)
Apr. 20 – NROL-145
Sep. 22 – NROL-48
Dec. 09 – NROL-77
End of an eraThe planned landing of B1096 at LZ-2 may very well wrap up SpaceX’s time using this site as a landing location for its Falcon boosters.
In an effort to increase access to launch providers at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Space Launch Delta 45 decided all launch providers need to return their rocket boosters to landing sites at their launch pads.
SpaceX has been taking the necessary steps to shift its recovery infrastructure away from LZ-1 and LZ-2. The company’s lease for these sites ends on Dec. 31, 2025.
SpaceX received the environmental approvals needed to move forward with a landing pad near (SLC-40) and has been making constructing that facility over the course of 2025.
The company is also looking to add a landing pad at Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. SpaceX needs two landing zones in order to recover the side boosters of a Falcon Heavy rocket.
https://spaceflightnow.com/2025/12/09/live-coverage-spacex-to-launch-classified-payload-for-the-national-reconnaissance-office/https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/spacex-launch-spy-satellite-mission-nrol-77-nro
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