Launch Date: May 22
Launch Window: 1:00 am PDT (4:00 am EDT, 08:00 UTC)
Launch site: SLC-4E, Vandenberg Space Force Base, California
Core Booster Recovery: ASDS - OCISLY
Booster: B1071.16
Fairings: Reused
Mass: ? Starshield satellites
Orbit: LEO
Yearly Launch Number: 53
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the NROL-146 mission on behalf of the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). According to Dr. Troy Meink, the NRO principal deputy director, this will be the first launch for the agency’s proliferated architecture, which focuses on space-based ISR (intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance). Reuters was the first to report that these satellites were built by SpaceX and Northrop Grumman under a classified $1.8 billion contract.
Launch Window: 1:00 am PDT (4:00 am EDT, 08:00 UTC)
Launch site: SLC-4E, Vandenberg Space Force Base, California
Core Booster Recovery: ASDS - OCISLY
Booster: B1071.16
Fairings: Reused
Mass: ? Starshield satellites
Orbit: LEO
Yearly Launch Number: 53
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the NROL-146 mission on behalf of the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). According to Dr. Troy Meink, the NRO principal deputy director, this will be the first launch for the agency’s proliferated architecture, which focuses on space-based ISR (intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance). Reuters was the first to report that these satellites were built by SpaceX and Northrop Grumman under a classified $1.8 billion contract.
Starshield Satellite: A New Breakthrough in Technology
A new form of satellite communication is now being used by Marines of 2d Marine Division (MARDIV), II Marine Expeditionary Force. Starshield, a commercial wideband satellite communications service, is
www.mcieast.marines.mil
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