LIVE! SpaceX NROL-146 Classified Launch

LIVE! SpaceX NROL-146 Classified Launch
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Watch LIVE as SpaceX launches a classified mission for the National Reconnaissance Office.
Pad : SLC-4E
Location : Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, USA
Rocket : Falcon 9 Block 5
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[@universaldillettant]

Always amazing.

[@UtahBlender]

Love these launches! Can’t wait for Starship 4!

[@user-re1lu4nv9o]

Congratulations for this 52 flight in 2024.

[@RMM038]

Congratulations!

[@lawrenceturner3891]

Awesome 👏

[@heathersickels]

I saw this cloudy object tracking eastward in the late twilight sky over the San Rafael Swell wildlands in Utah, May 22nd night-at first looked like fast moving ISS then the object became cloudy and diffuse (then faded for a couple seconds) then "poof" it expanded forward into a cloudy concave arc and dissipated-I figured it was SpaceX and it was!

[@rinconchuck]

Never gets old!

[@alandowney6961]

Good launch sound! Thanks!

[@marcomix17]

Vamos que vamos 🧡🚀

[@andrewdavie386]

LOL @ time top right skipping 00 seconds altogether, and displaying 60 instead. e.g., +00:07:60 then 00:08:01

[@dougbrinklow9979]

It will be interesting to know if there was a problem with this flight. On the X feed, which is much clearer than this one, there looked like green flame from T+2:10 to T+2:20, just before MECO. This would indicate one of the engines was melting from the inside. And the landing looked hard. Just before the engines cut off, it looked like the first stage dropped onto the deck, then in the deck view, the legs were spread very wide, and the engines were very low to the deck. I hope they can still get the grabber under that.

[@Ticoriko]

Was this last night?

[@timbacchus]

Hope that will counter that Russian satellite buster.

[@unclejunesgaming4325]

if it is classified, how do you broadcast it

[@WG-tt6hk]

The booster is not classified. The 2nd stage is. Please notice the only reference to the 2nd stage was that is was on a "nominal trajectory" No video and no confirmation of orbital insertion. No doubt a recon satellite to track your cellphone and internet connections. Big Brother is watching.

[@MultiNacnud]

Never mind the payload the rocket is so secret a smoke screen hides it.

[@mcwarty29]

shhh its seacret

[@PlayStationOneDude]

Secret* but ok.