Launch set today: SpaceX will launch the NROL-172 mission from Vandenberg SFB on May 11, with a window from 3:28 p.m. to 7:28 p.m. PT. Recon satellites payload: The Falcon 9 will carry small reconnaissance satellites for the National Reconnaissance Office ...

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SpaceX will launch a batch of spy satellites for the U.S. government this evening (May 11), and you can watch the action live. A Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to lift off from California's Vandenberg Space Force Base today, on a mission for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) called NROL-172.

A Falcon 9 rocket climbed away from Vandenberg Space Force Base on California’s central coast in late May 2026, carrying 24 Starlink internet satellites into low-Earth orbit and nudging the constellation’s active fleet toward roughly 7,