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Cold-War-era missile launches three modern-day spy satellites

Enlarge / A Minotaur rocket launches the NROL-111 mission on Tuesday. (credit: Trevor Mahlmann) For the first time in nearly eight years, a Minotaur 1 rocket launched into space Tuesday from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. The rocket, which is derived from Cold-War-era surplus missiles, carried three classified satellites into orbit for the US […]