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NROL-87 Launches from Vandenberg

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket first stage makes its return landing to Space Launch Complex-4, following the launch of a National Reconnaissance Office mission NROL-87, Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2022, at 12:27 p.m. Pacific Time at Vandenberg Space Force Base, CA. This launch is the first NRO mission utilizing a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the Western Range and the first Falcon 9 first stage landing back on Vandenberg Space Force Base SLC-4 pad since the Sentinel-6 launch and landing on Nov. 21, 2020. (U.S. Space Force photo by Michael Peterson)

PHOTO BY: Michael Peterson
VIRIN: 220202-F-IN231-1002.JPG
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CAMERA

NIKON D810

LENS

80.0-200.0 mm f/2.8

APERTURE

8

SHUTTERSPEED

1/1000

ISO

125

IMAGE IS PUBLIC DOMAIN

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