Watch A Spy Satellite Launch Into Space
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Weather was not kind to United Launch Alliance last Thursday, when the company prepared to launch a mysterious payload into space for the National Reconnaissance Office. Saturday’s weather was much nicer, allowing the super-heavy rocket to take its classified cargo into orbit. TheOrbital.space captured a great video of the launch–watch below:

Watch A Spy Satellite Launch Into Space
Kelsey D. Atherton
Kelsey D. Atherton

Kelsey D. Atherton is a military technology journalist who has contributed to Popular Science since 2013. He covers uncrewed robotics and other drones, communications systems, the nuclear enterprise, and the technologies that go into planning, waging, and mitigating war.