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NROL-86

Falcon Heavy, SpaceX

Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

Launch time

No earlier than

NET fiscal year 2027

Fiscal Year precisionTo be determined

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Slip history

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  1. LL2 update

    Launch will be on Falcon Heavy.

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  2. LL2 update

    Adding launch

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Mission

NROL-86 on Falcon Heavy from Launch Complex 39A. Launch time, status and recorded date changes from Launch Library 2.

Classified payload for the US National Reconnaissance Office

Mission type
Government/Top Secret
Orbit
Unknown

Rocket file imagery

A Falcon Heavy climbs on a bright exhaust plume, with palms in the foreground and its launch tower below.

File imagery: Psyche, 13 October 2023. Falcon Heavy lifting off from Launch Complex 39A.

Credit: NASA/Aubrey Gemignani · Public domain (NASA) · Source

Launch timeline

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Launch pad

Launch Complex 39A

Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA (US)

Coordinates: 28.60822681, -80.60428186

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Launch data: The Space Devs (Launch Library 2)

Launch plans change. Times are estimates from the source, not a guarantee of liftoff.