SpaceX Launches First Classified Satellite For NRO

SpaceX launched its first satellite for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), the classified NROL-76, at 7:15 a.m. May 1 from Space Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The first-stage booster landed at Landing Zone-1 at Cape Canaveral, the fourth successful SpaceX landing...

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