Scheduled for (UTC) 2024-09-06, 03:20
Scheduled for (local) 2024-09-05, 20:20 (PDT)
Launch site SLC-4E, Vandenberg SFB, California, USA
Booster B1063-20
Landing Of Course I Still Love You
Payload NROL-113
Customer National Reconnaissance Office
Mission success criteria Successful delivery of payload to LEO

Webcasts

Stream Link
Space Affairs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEHplxmatco
Spaceflight Now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGUkhL4FCIQ
NASASpaceflight
The Launch Pad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-QXLkgPp48
SpaceX https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1831892881591689372
The Space Devs

Stats

Sourced from NextSpaceflight and r/SpaceX:

☑️ 17th consecutive successful Falcon 9 launch (if successful)

☑️ 29th launch from SLC-4E this year

☑️ 5 days, 18:32:00 turnaround for this pad

☑️ 56 day turnaround for B1063

☑️ 101st landing on OCISLY

☑️ 346th Falcon Family Booster landing, 357th Falcon recovery attempt

☑️ 86th Falcon 9 mission this year, 372nd Falcon 9 mission overall

☑️ 87th SpaceX mission of 2024, 387th mission overall (excluding Starship flights)

☑️ 89th SpaceX launch this year, 400th SpaceX launch overall (including Starship flights)

Mission info

Third batch of satellites for a reconnaissance satellite constellation built by SpaceX and Northrop Grumman for the National Reconnaissance Office to provide imaging and other reconnaissance capabilities.