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SpaceX had a very busy Thursday and it ended like this
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Three, two, one, mission and lift off. Go Falcon, go NROL 97
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That was launch number three in less than 13 hours. SpaceX pulled off something it had only done once before
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The NROL-97 mission lifted off from Florida's Kennedy Space Center just before midnight
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And here's what makes it interesting. We don't know what was on board
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The Falcon Heavy was carrying a classified payload for the National Reconnaissance Office
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the U.S. agency that operates the country's spy satellites. And that was just launch number three
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Earlier Thursday, SpaceX sent Crew-13 to the International Space Station. The four-person crew arrived nearly eight hours after liftoff
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Then came Transporter 18, what SpaceX calls a small-set rideshare mission carrying 180 payloads into orbit
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All told, SpaceX has now launched more than 100 missions this year
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And just in case you're interested, SpaceX is offering so-called rideshare missions as low as, wait for it, $350,000
