Enlarge / SpaceX launches a satellite for the National Reconnaissance Office on May 1. (credit: SpaceX) About six weeks ago, SpaceX launched a spy satellite into low Earth orbit from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. As is normal for National Reconnaissance Office launches, not much information was divulged about the satellite's final orbit or its specific purpose in space.

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