CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION — SpaceX successfully launched the NROL-77 mission from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40 Tuesday afternoon.

Rocket lovers may have heard a sonic boom, which was expected during SpaceX’s launch of a U.S. national security satellite.

There is not much about the mission that can be released since it is a launch for national security.

Going up

This was the fourth mission for B1096, the name of this Falcon 9’s first-stage booster.

Project Kuiper's KF1 mission

IMAP mission

Starlink 6-87 mission

After the first-stage separation, it landed at Landing Zone 2 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

And many may have heard it.

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