SpaceX Launched A Top-Secret Spy Satellite For US Government, And Somehow All Of Us Knew About It

Donald Trump maybe having a great - and quite entertaining - life in the White House but there are surely some loopholes in his government.

Point in case being this news - SpaceX has launched a top-secret spy satellite for the US government.

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We will get into the details of the rocket, launch and all the blah blah later, but we are worried about one thing.

If it was really a Super Secret,?Spy satellite -?Why does the entire world know about it?

What kind of an administration release information to the press about their super secret spy launches. It's not just against the code of conduct but seriously makes me question my understanding of international spy-work; all of which is an amalgamation of James Bond (007%), Jason Bourne (13%), XXX (15%), Austin Powers (25%) and Johnny English (40%) movies.

Somehow I am damn sure that this is not secret information to die for so here it goes.?

The unmanned Falcon 9 rocket lifted off Monday morning from its NASA-leased pad at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. It hoisted a classified satellite for the National Reconnaissance Office.

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Several minutes into the flight, the first stage booster - its job done - aimed for a touchdown at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. SpaceX strives to return most of its first-stage boosters for reuse.

This was the fourth SpaceX booster landing at Cape Canaveral; even more, have landed on an ocean platform. Sonic booms, as usual, rattled the area around the launch site.

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We even know that Sunday's launch attempt was foiled at the last minute by a bad sensor.

Maybe US is feeling a bit pressured by the huge number of popular launch by ISRO in the past year and is doing this to catch up with them, but spy satellite giveaways are not cool!