CHANTILLY, Va. –
The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), in partnership with the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) New Zealand Defense Force’s (NZDF) Defence Science & Technology (DST), and SEOPS Space, successfully launched Otter, a research & development (R&D) demonstrator, aboard the Transporter-12 mission on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex-4E Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Jan. 14, 2025, at 2:09 p.m. EST.
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