Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies Corp. added another successful launch to its record, but this time it carried a classified payload for the Pentagon’s National Reconnaissance Office.

Lifting off from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center at 7:14 a.m. local time, precisely at the beginning of the launch window, it was the first time SpaceX, as the company is called, conducted a mission dedicated to blasting an NRO or any other type of Pentagon spacecraft into orbit.

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