US military launches secretive space plane – Newspaper

CAPE CANAVERAL: The US military’s secretive X-37B robot space plane blasted off from Florida on Thursday night on its seventh mission, the first launched atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket capable of delivering it to a higher orbit than ever before.

The Falcon Heavy, composed of three liquid-fuelled rocket cores strapped together, roared off its launch pad from Nasa’s Kennedy Space Center…