Donald Trump’s Space Force launches top-secret spy satellites

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2020-07-15 14:44:18

DONALD Trump's fledgling "Space Force" today fired four top-secret satellites into orbit from a launchpad in Virginia. A Minotaur IV rocket carried the classified payload for the National Reconnaissance Office, the US agency tasked with operating spy satellites … Continue reading on The Sun

DONALD Trump’s fledgling “Space Force” today fired four top-secret satellites into orbit from a launchpad in Virginia.

A Minotaur IV rocket carried the classified payload for the National Reconnaissance Office, the US agency tasked with operating spy satellites.

The mission marked the first time the US Space Force launched from Nasa’s Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Virginia.

“It’s a go for launch of a Northrop Grumman Minotaur IV rocket July 15 from Nasa’s Wallops Flight Facility,” Nasa wrote in a press release on Tuesday.

The Space Force was officially established in December 2019 and is the first new military service since the Air Force launched in 1947.