NROL-87
Success
FEB 02202220:27:26 UTCFalcon 9 delivered USA-326, a classified satellite for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), the US agency that operates the country's spy satellites, to a 512 km sun-synchronous orbit at 97.4° inclination.
In August 2022 Russia launched Kosmos 2558, a satellite of its Nivelir inspection series, into the same orbital plane. It periodically passed within about 60 to 70 km of USA-326.
LIFTOFF
FEB 02 202220:27:26 UTC
Success
launched from SLC-4E Vandenberg
aboard Falcon 9 Block 5 F9-139 into SSO
Broadcast
Watch how the launch went
Booster
B1071.1
Landed on ground pad · LZ-4
Payload
NROL-87
Reconnaissance

