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Old May 20th 20, 02:45 AM posted to alt.binaries.pictures.aviation
Mitchell Holman[_9_]
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Default Sunday’s launch of a secret space plane produced some eye-catching images - An Atlas V rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Saturday morning.jpg

Miloch wrote in
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pics/more at
https://arstechnica.com/science/2020...azzling-images
-from-sundays-launch-of-a-space-plane/

On Sunday morning, an Atlas V rocket built by United Launch Alliance
took off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The rocket
hauled the secretive X-37B space plane into orbit for the US Space
Force.

The launch webcast ended just five minutes after the launch due to the
classified nature of the mission, but the rocket company said it
inserted the spacecraft into its target orbit.



Some of us remember all the "classified"
space shuttle missions. Even the Challenger
disaster was on a "classified military mission".