SpaceX Launch LIVE: Elon Musk-led SpaceX Launches U.S. Space Force ‘rapid response’ GPS Mission

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off Dec. 16 at 7:52 p.m. Eastern from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, sending a military GPS satellite to a medium orbit about 12,000 miles above Earth. Named Rapid Response Trailblazer-1 (RRT-1), this mission was a U.S. national security space launch and was also intended to demonstrate military capabilities to condense a typical two-year mission planning cycle to less than six months. RRT-1 was originally scheduled to lift off Dec. 13 but the launch was scrubbed due to high winds. This was SpaceX’s 126th launch of 2024. About eight minutes after launch, the Falcon 9 first-stage booster returned and landed on a drone ship. SpaceX ended the livestream after the booster landing.

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