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There's nothing secret about that. It's a satellite and it's for the NRO. What's secret is what it does, and what its orbit will be. (Once it gets to its final
by harshreality 9y ago
There's nothing secret about that. It's a satellite and it's for the NRO. What's secret is what it does, and what its orbit will be. (Once it gets to its final orbit, I guess there are amateur satellite trackers that will figure it out, but not until then).
The webcast host may not (I'd guess he probably doesn't) know what the satellite does or its final orbit. He does mechanical design. I'd bet they keep that information compartmentalized within SpaceX so only the operations personnel who need to know would know.
- jacquesm 9y agoI'd bet nobody at SpaceX knows what it actually does even though they might take a good guess based on the orbit.
- ziikutv 9y agoIn the beginning they said that the payload is confidential too, not just the destination. Rewatch it ;)
- harshreality 9y ago"satellite" is not a description of the payload.
- collinmanderson 9y agoWe know that it's either very light or it's a low orbit, otherwise spacex would have done a water landing.