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SpaceX launches Falcon 9 rocket carrying privately funded Israeli moon lander

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket streaked away from Cape Canaveral on Thursday night, boosting an Indonesian communications satellite into orbit and -- along with it -- a small Israeli spacecraft that will attempt the first privately-funded, non-superpower moon landing in April.
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