SpaceX launches classified payload for National Reconnaissance Office
SpaceX in the early morning today successfully launched a classified payload for National Reconnaissance Office, its Falcon 9 lifting off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
The number of satellites in the payload was not disclosed. The rocket’s two fairings completed their 3rd and 35th flights. The first stage completed its 3rd flight (29 days after its previous flight), landing back at Vandenberg.
The leaders in the 2026 launch race:
73 SpaceX
40 China
8 Russia
8 Rocket Lab (plus two suborbital HASTE launches)
For the third straight year SpaceX leads the entire world combined in total launches, 73 to 68.
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Maybe you should track the fairings that have more flights than the space shuttles. as well? 35th on this flight and I recall a 34 earlier last week.