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Rocket Lab successfully launches secret NRO spy satellites

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March 21 (UPI) — U.S.-based Rocket Lab launched an Electron rocket topped with secret U.S. spy satellites early Thursday from Virginia. The NROL-123 mission, called Live and Let Fly, launched at 3:25 a.m.

Rocket Lab launched a secret National Reconnaissance Office mission into space early Thursday from Virginia.

The NROL-123 mission, called Live and Let Fly, launched at 3:25 a.m. EDT from Rocket Lab's dedicated Launch Complex 2 pad at the Virginia Spaceport Authority Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport in Wallops, Va. Little information about the mission was made publicly available. No close up shots of the payload were permitted during the live broadcast by the NRO.

 

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