U.S. National Reconnaissance Office announces SpaceX will launch a classified payload next week

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The United States National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) plans to launch a classified government payload to space atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. This mission was kept completely secret until a month before its original mid-October target launch date. NRO representatives announced the mission has been rescheduled for next week. –“LAUNCH UPDATE: Our NROL-108 mission launch with SpaceX is now scheduled for NET [no earlier than] Dec. 17 from Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 39A. NROL-108 will launch on a Falcon 9–stay tuned for our mission patch reveal!” the agency wrote via Twitter.

https://twitter.com/NatReconOfc/status/1334931367235383297

LAUNCH UPDATE: Our #NROL108 mission launch with

@SpaceX

is now scheduled for NET Dec. 17 from Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 39A. NROL-108 will launch on a Falcon 9–stay tuned for our mission patch reveal!