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SpaceX Launches Highly Secret Israeli Communications Satellite

BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA, JUL 13 – The Dror 1 satellite, Israel’s most advanced communications satellite, will support national strategic capabilities with a planned 15-year mission, launched on Falcon 9’s 500th flight.

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SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station early Sunday carrying an Israel Aerospace Industries communications satellite, a payload that had been kept largely secret until liftoff.

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In the night between Saturday and Sunday, July 13, SpaceX completed a new space launch, characterized by a halo of confidentiality that immediately attracted the attention of the observers. At 1:04 local time (at 05:04 GMT), a Falcon 9 rocket took off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, carrying an officially identified cargo as "Commercial GTO-1" without further details on the nature of the satellite...

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Wccftech broke the news in on Sunday, July 13, 2025.
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