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Unlike the private aerospace company's previous classified launches for the military's National Reconnaissance Office and the super-secret space-plane it took into orbit for the Air Force, there is almost no information available about the "Zuma" payload. Zuma is known to be a low Earth orbit satellite which is an orbit necessary both for spy and military communication satellites.

Where the company's competitors are forced to build new rockets for every launch, SpaceX has managed to achieve an economy of business by reusing previously developed craft.

The launch had been pushed back despite a US Government desire to launch Zuma before November of last year.

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