NROL-48

Name: NROL-48
Start: 2025-09-22T17:38:00Z
Location: Vandenberg

Success

SEP 22202517:38:00 UTC

NROL-48 Mission (NRO Proliferated Architecture Mission). Eleventh batch of SpaceX/Northrop built 8 Starshield satellites for the National Reconnaissance Office.

LIFTOFF

SEP 22 2025

17:38:00 UTC

Success

launched fromSLC-4EVandenberg

aboardFalcon 9 B5F9-537intoLEO

Booster

B1081.18

Landed on ground pad · LZ-4

Payloads · 2

01
USA-558 - 565 (Starshield x 8)
Reconnaissance
02
NROL-48 (11 Starshield satellites)