On Sunday, December 24 at 5:11 a.m., SpaceX launched the SARah-2 mission low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base.
This was the eighth flight of the first stage booster supporting this mission, which previously launched SDA-0A and six Starlink missions.
The Falcon 9 rocket lifted off with two synthetic aperture radar reconnaissance satellites for the German military.
The launch can be watched below:
Watch Falcon 9 launch the @ohb_se SARah-2 mission to orbit https://t.co/oRro0wRbuz
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) December 24, 2023