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SpaceX launches satellite aboard Falcon 9 rocket

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket using a previously "used" booster shot away from Cape Canaveral Wednesday afternoon -- 60 years to the day after the first successful U.S. satellite launch -- launching a commercially developed military relay station into orbit for Luxembourg, its NATO allies and satellite operator SES.
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