The mission, designated NROL-174, lifted off at 3:33 p.m. Eastern from Space Launch Complex 8 (SLC-8) at Vandenberg.

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket successfully launched a secret payload in space on Monday as part of a classified mission for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). The NROL-69 mission lifted off ...

Few details were publicly released about the classified SpaceX NROL-69 mission, which lifted off at 1:48 p.m. EDT Monday from ...