Press Release | Jan. 24, 2025

NRO, in partnership with the U.S. Navy and New Zealand Defence Force, Successfully Launches Research & Development Demonstrator

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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