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EDDIE51 | 08:43 Sun 30th Apr 2017 | Science
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Th e NORL-76 surveillance satellite is due for launch sometime today. This mission is so highly classified they will not even reveal the exact launch time.
https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2017/04/spacex-falcon-9-first-nro-mission-nrol-76/
Any one want to speculate on what it may be for?
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Surveillance?
So secret you've got the acronym wrong.

The NRO have announced that the launch “will carry a classified payload designed, built and operated” by the National Reconnaissance Office. This could be an indication that the spacecraft is not part of one of the agency’s existing payload classes, which are believed to be mostly constructed by defense contractors. This suggests that the payload could either be the first of a new series of satellite or – more likely – a technology demonstration mission.
C&P.
After some furious Googling it appears that the CIA in conjunction with Westinghouse Industries have developed a system capable of bypassing standard spy-thwarting methods (the tinfoil helmet) and were hoping to keep it top secret so as to learn the innermost thoughts of wearers.

Well done Eddie, you blew years of vital work right here on Answerbank.
The missions logo has the phrase consequat non licet on the badges. Photography not allowed. A clue?

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