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uzn
5th May 2017, 08:56
With the latest flight NROL-76 of a Falcon9 SpaceX launched a secret Spy Satellite for the NRO. The National Reconnaissance Office is the Military Secret Service. Its an Agency of the United States Department of Defence.
http://spaceflights.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/2812068120_992b34c578_z-1.jpg
The NRO already confirmed they have flights booked with SpaceX. Plural, at least two.
http://spacenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/nrol-76launch-1-879x485-879x485.jpg
The broadcast of the Launch was interupted after a few minutes due to secrecy. Nothing is known of the Cargo. But one can speculate since Ball Aerospace booked the Rocket and not the NRO directly. Ball Aerospace is working really Close with the NRO. And they are well known for their Expertise in Optical and Radar Satellite Surveillance and production. SpaceX got 100 Million Dollars for the Launch.

Mission Badge:
https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/2017-04-27-220346-350x350.jpg
Meriwether Lewis and Willian Clark getting ready to Expand the White Man Lands up to the Pacific.
http://spaceflight101.com/falcon-9-nrol-76/wp-content/uploads/sites/153/2017/04/nrol-76spacexpatch.jpg

Not one Word of the Cargo in the Mission Overview:
http://www.spacex.com/sites/spacex/files/nrol76presskit.pdf

At least Elon Musk is now where he always wanted to be with SpaceX. Working for the Military Industrial Complex and getting a Piece of the real Cake.

After delivering the Secret Spy Satellite in Orbit the first Stage returned to Earth nicely:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hw0ztRL37Rw

uzn
5th May 2017, 09:11
Sometimes Pictures tell more than words, here some older Mission Badges from the NRO.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b3/National_Reconnaissance_Operations_Center.PNG
http://cabinetmagazine.org/issues/24/paglen4.jpg
NROL-32
http://zapatopi.net/blog/gpm-nrol-32_logo2.jpg
NROL-11
http://zapatopi.net/blog/gpm-nrol-11_logo.jpg
https://thumbs-media.smithsonianmag.com/filer/6d/9f/6d9f9f22-67bf-4b30-a645-6813c0cc5b79/octopus.jpg__600x0_q85_upscale.jpg
http://www.thespacereview.com/archive/1197e.jpg
http://www.cryptogon.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/nrol49.jpg

uzn
5th May 2017, 09:19
http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/24/paglen1.jpg
http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/24/paglen3.jpg
http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/24/paglen5.jpg
http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/24/paglen6.jpg
http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/24/paglen8.jpg
translates to: I could tell you, but then I would have to kill you.

NROL-66
http://i2.wp.com/vigilantcitizen.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/062.png

NROL-49
http://www.nro.gov/images/launches/nrol-49/NROL-49-patch.jpg

https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/2017-04-29-235303-350x321.jpg

There are plenty more, just wanted to show some for the feel of them.

amor
5th May 2017, 23:26
First we have the Latin which few read, then we have the change from Eagle to Dragon of Hell. Very appropriate for telling who is behind all this. As for multistage rockets, in an age of anti-gravitational flight which can drop off satellites at any height possibly within minutes or seconds, what is the air pollution all about?