Falcon 9 Family rocket variant.
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SpaceX did not disclose technical details about the NROL-105 payload, orbit, or specific objectives in line with the typically classified nature of NRO missions.
Falcon 9 has become one of the reference launch vehicles for U.S. civil and military institutions.
The 600-mission total comprises flights from different configurations of the Falcon family with Falcon 9 as the principal active launch vehicle.
SpaceX posted on X that Falcon 9 launched NROL-105 and that the flight completed the company’s 600th overall Falcon mission.
Falcon 9 regularly operates from the California pad for missions for the NRO, NASA, and commercial satellite customers.
Starlink is a major anchor customer for Falcon 9 and represents a large percentage of SpaceX launches.
Operational scaling of the Falcon family has contributed to reduced costs of access to orbit and increased launch availability for institutional and commercial customers.
After Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, OneWeb completed deployment of its constellation using SpaceX Falcon 9 and ISRO’s LVM3 rockets.
SpaceX continues to add Starlink subscribers and achieved significant Falcon 9 launch records.
SpaceX lofted the latest batch of 10 Iridium Next satellites in early 2019 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
A significant portion of NOAA’s targeted radio occultation data is likely to come from the six satellites that make up the second U.S.-Taiwan COSMIC constellation launched in 2019.
SpaceX launched astronauts Douglas Hurley and Robert Behnken to the International Space Station for NASA in May using a Crew Dragon spacecraft atop a Falcon 9 rocket.
ESA originally planned to launch Euclid on a Soyuz rocket but switched to Falcon 9 due to the unavailability of the Soyuz vehicle.
Momentus completed final flight preparations and integrated Vigoride-6 with a Falcon 9 launch vehicle.
The approach enables internet services that cover use cases from high-throughput to Direct-to-Cell (D2C).
SpaceX completed two successful launches for the Tranche 0 portion of the Space Development Agency’s constellation.
A Falcon 9 lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California at 6:34 a.m. Eastern on the Bandwagon-2 mission.
SpaceX targeted Tuesday, 2024-06-18 for a Falcon 9 launch of the SES ASTRA 1P mission to geosynchronous transfer orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
Both Falcon 9 missions on October 19, 2025, carried 28 Starlink satellites each.
SpaceX’s strategic moves introduce new competitive pressures on mid-tier space companies such as Rocket Lab.