SpaceX launched a classified payload for the National Reconnaissance Office on a Falcon Heavy rocket from Florida on Thursday night.^[1] This deployment marks a shift in how the agency flies its sensitive assets, as the National Reconnaissance Office has flown payloads on 22 Falcon 9 rockets previously but this is the first time it has used the Falcon Heavy.^[6] Earlier in the week, SpaceX also sent its enormous Starship rocket into Earth's orbit for the first time on a milestone flight intended to pave the way for future missions to the moon and Mars.^[3] The Transporter-18 mission carried other payloads, including Google's first Project Suncatcher satellite into Earth orbit.^[2] Argentina's first university nanosatellite, USAT-1, was successfully launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 on the same Transporter-18 mission from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California.^[4] SpaceX has made clear that it will phase out the use of the Dragon spacecraft and the Falcon 9 rocket as Starship flights ramp up.^[5]