SpaceX to launch Falcon 9 with Israeli communications satellite

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July 10 (UPI) -- SpaceX will launch a new type of mission from Cape Canaveral, Fla., carrying an Israeli communications satellite. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled for launch at 12:31 a.m. July 13 from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, according to Florida Today . SpaceX calls the mission " Commercial GTO 1 ." The company hasn't used that term before in a mission name. GTO usually means geostationary transfer orbit, an elliptical orbit used to send a payload to

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