Yes. SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy lifted off from Kennedy Space Center’s LC-39A at 11:54 p.m. Eastern Time on October 1, 2026, carrying the classified NROL-97 payload for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office — the NRO’s first mission on Falcon Heavy after 22 prior flights on Falcon 9, and its first launch purchased under the NSSL Phase 3 Lane 2 contract awarded in 2025.
Side boosters B1104 and B1072 landed at Cape Canaveral’s LZ-1 and LZ-2, helping SpaceX complete a company-record four booster landings in a single day. The center core was expended; the payload fairing was reused from July’s NROL-95 mission.
Source: KeepTrack — Falcon Heavy Flies First NRO Mission, X Report 3 Oct 2026