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By Dana Hull

January 9, 2018 at 8:10 PM UTC

Updated on

January 12, 2018 at 2:21 AM UTC

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It was one of the most important things Elon Musk has ever launched into space: a government satellite so shrouded in secrecy that virtually everything about it is classified.

Its code name: Zuma.