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SpaceX Launches Highly Secret Israeli Communications Satellite
CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION, FLORIDA, UNITED STATES, JUL 13 – SpaceX marked its 500th Falcon 9 launch by deploying Israel's advanced Dror 1 communications satellite, boosting reusable rocket milestones and global launch capacity, company data shows.
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SpaceX completes its 500th Falcon 9 mission in secrecy (maybe not that secret)
The SpaceX Falcon 9 just hit a major launch milestone over the weekend with its 500th successful launch. While most companies would have maybe made a bigger deal out of the milestone, it was just another day for SpaceX, and the payload it flew left the mission in a veil of secrecy for a little bit. more…
SpaceX launches highly secret Israeli communications satellite
SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station early Sunday carrying an Israel Aerospace Industries communications satellite, a payload that had been kept largely secret until liftoff.
In the night between Saturday and Sunday, July 13, SpaceX completed a new space launch, characterized by a halo of confidentiality that immediately attracted the attention of the observers. At 1:04 local time (at 05:04 GMT), a Falcon 9 rocket took off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, carrying an officially identified cargo as "Commercial GTO-1" without further details on the nature of the satellite...
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