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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - A rocket carrying an intelligence-gathering payload for the Pentagon suffered a technical problem after its launch, officials said. But they were confident Saturday that its secretive mission would be performed.
The Atlas V rocket launched Friday morning, hauling a payload from the National Reconnaissance Office, a division of the Department of Defense that builds and operates spy satellites.
The NRO said Friday night that the launch was successful, but the rocket's Centaur upper stage later had a "technical anomaly which resulted in minor performance degradation."
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