A United Launch Alliance (ULA) unmanned Atlas V rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station this Thursday morning, toting along with it an Air Force top-secret satellite.
Lifting off at 9:09 a.m. EDT, the NROL-33 mission launch was carried out for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), which designs, builds and flies America's intelligence satellites, according to the Associated Press.
Details behind the satellite's mission remain classified for national security reasons, but according to SpaceFlight101, it is most likely a Quasar satellite that will become part of the Satellite Data System.
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