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SpaceX Launches NROL-97 Mission for US Spy Agency

Original: NROL-97 Mission

SpaceX is conducting the NROL-97 mission, a launch carrying a payload for the US National Reconnaissance Office, which operates America's intelligence satellites. Details about the payload are classified, as is standard for NRO missions. The launch draws attention as another example of SpaceX's growing role in national security space operations.

Why now: The classified nature of national security launches and SpaceX's prominence in spaceflight make each new NRO mission newsworthy.

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