SpaceX today completed its record 26th launch of the year, sending a secret NRO satellite into space via its Falcon 9 booster.
On Saturday morning, SpaceX successfully completed its NROL-108 mission and also completed its 70th recovery of its first stage boosters.
Check out the Falcon 9 launch below:
Liftoff! pic.twitter.com/AG4rAR6qNp
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) December 19, 2020
…and the always impressive landing at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, instead of a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean:
Falcon 9’s first stage has landed on Landing Zone 1 pic.twitter.com/mR18Qv3GoC
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) December 19, 2020
SpaceX did not show video footage of its NRO payload being sent off into space, at the request of its customer, the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office.
The NROL-108 mission was originally set for Thursday, but was scrubbed and eventually rescheduled for Saturday morning.
