NROL-85 is the first NRO satellite to fly on a used rocket.
at Vandenberg's Landing Zone 4 roughly eight minutes after launch in what may be the ultimate bunny hop on the Easter Sunday holiday. SpaceX ended its live webcast of the launch just after the Falcon 9 landing at the NRO's request due to the mission's classified nature.
"It also marks our 114th overall successful recovery of a first-stage booster," John Insprucker, SpaceX's principal integration engineer, said after the landing.A used SpaceX Falcon rocket launches the classified NROL-85 spy satellite for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Easter Sunday, April 17, 2022.
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