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Launch Success
Liftoff Time (GMT)
06:49:40
Friday March 21, 2025
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Launched just 9 days after B1088's previous mission on SPHEREx & PUNCH, NROL-57 set a new booster turnaround record by around 4 days.
The NRO's Proliferated Architecture is a reconnaissance satellite constellation built by SpaceX and Northrop Grumman for the National Reconnaissance Office to provide imaging and other reconnaissance capabilities. The NRO’s proliferated system will increase timeliness of access, diversify communication pathways, and enhance resilience. It will provide greater revisit rates and increased coverage, and eliminate single points of failure. With hundreds of small satellites on orbit, data will be delivered in minutes or even seconds. This will ensure the analysts, warfighters, and civil agencies NRO serves receive actionable information faster than ever before.
Manufacturer: SpaceX
Operator: National Reconnaissance Office
Low Earth Orbit
11 Payloads


Agency
SpaceXPrice
$74.00 million
Rocket
Diameter: 3.7m
Height: 70m
Payload to Orbit
LEO: 22,000 kg
GTO: 8,300 kg
Liftoff Thrust
7,607 Kilonewtons
Fairing
Diameter: 5.2m
Height: 13m
Stages
2

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Launching
Southeast
451st
Mission
33rd
Mission of 2025
475th
Mission
35th
Mission of 2025
58th
Orbital launch attempt