The US military's X-37B robot spaceplane blasted off from Florida on its seventh mission, the first launched atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket capable of delivering it to a higher orbit than ever before.
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The launch of the plane, which will carry out classified experiments, marks another development in US-China space rivalry.

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