SpaceX Falcon Heavy — NROL-97
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Thu, Oct 1, 2026 · 11:53 PM EDT
Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center · Merritt Island · FL
SpaceX Falcon Heavy launches NROL-97, a classified payload for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center, Florida. Spaceflight Now notes it is the first NRO payload to fly on a Falcon Heavy, after 22 NRO missions on Falcon 9. SpaceX lists side-booster landing-zone returns with the center core expended.