Launch Date: June 28
Launch Window: 8:14 pm PDT (11:14 pm EDT, 03:14 UTC)
Launch site: SLC-4E, Vandenberg Space Force Base, California
Core Booster Recovery: ASDS - OCISLY
Booster: B1081.8
Fairings: Reused
Mass: 20 Starshield satellites
Orbit: LEO
Yearly Launch Number: 69
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the NROL-186 mission on behalf of the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). According to Dr. Troy Meink, the NRO principal deputy director, this will be the second (of a possible six) 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.
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Launch Window: 8:14 pm PDT (11:14 pm EDT, 03:14 UTC)
Launch site: SLC-4E, Vandenberg Space Force Base, California
Core Booster Recovery: ASDS - OCISLY
Booster: B1081.8
Fairings: Reused
Mass: 20 Starshield satellites
Orbit: LEO
Yearly Launch Number: 69
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the NROL-186 mission on behalf of the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). According to Dr. Troy Meink, the NRO principal deputy director, this will be the second (of a possible six) 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, iswww.mcieast.marines.mil
SpaceX Starshield - Wikipedia
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