SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket launches US military drone on research mission

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SPACEX’S FALCON HEAVY rocket blasted back into space last night to ferry the US military’s secretive X-37B drone to a research mission. After weeks of delays, the rocket launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 8.07 pm Eastern Time (1.07am Friday Irish time) in a liftoff livestreamed on SpaceX’s website. It is unclear where exactly the uncrewed and autonomously operating spacecraft is headed on its seventh mission. The Pentagon has released little information about the space drone and its mission, which was initially scheduled for 7 December, and SpaceX only cited the Pentagon’s mission code name – USSF-52...