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Satellite launch
A Lockheed Martin two-stage Titan 4 booster lifted a reconnaissance satellite into polar orbit from Vandenberg AFB, California, on 20 December, marking the first open launch in the formerly classified US unmanned military-satellite programme by the US Department of Defense. The satellite type has not been revealed.
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