Press Release | Sept. 22, 2025

NRO Launches Eleventh Proliferated Architecture Mission with NROL-48

CHANTILLY, Va.  –   The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), in partnership with U.S. Space Force Space Launch Delta 30 and SpaceX, successfully launched the NROL-48 mission aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex-4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on September 22, 2025, at 1:38 p.m. EDT.

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