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Evening Wrap: SpaceX Falcon 9 lifts USSF-385 from Vandenberg; booster B1100 lands on OCISLY
A SpaceX Falcon 9 lifted off at 9:01 a.m. CT Saturday from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, carrying the U.S. Space Force USSF-385 mission, a classified national-security payload; details were not released. Booster B1100, on its 10th flight, landed successfully on the Of Course I Still Love You droneship in the Pacific at about 9:10 a.m. CT, SpaceX said. Space.com and other outlets confirmed the West Coast liftoff and droneship landing; SpaceX has not publicly confirmed payload deployment for the classified mission.
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- SpaceXUSSF-385 Mission
- Space.comSpaceX launches mystery mission for US Space Force from California
- SpaceX on XFalcon 9's first stage lands on the Of Course I Still Love You droneship