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SpaceX Successfully Launches Its First Spy Satellite (arstechnica.com)

Posted by msmash on from the going-forward dept.

SpaceX successfully launched NROL-76, a classified U.S. intelligence mission, from NASA's Kennedy Space Center Monday. Sunday's launch attempt was scrubbed due to a sensor issue. From a report: Not much is known about the National Reconnaissance Office's NROL-76 satellite, a classified payload, which will liftoff into low Earth orbit from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

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  1. Failing SpaceX by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    They only recovered the first stage. All the rest wasted. SAD!