NRO Relay Spacecraft Launches from Cape Canaveral
Credit: PATRICK CORKERY/UNITED LAUNCH ALLIANCE
A secret U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) relay spacecraft is completing checkout in a highly elliptical orbit following launch on a northern trajectory Dec. 10 from Cape Canaveral on a U.S. Air Force Atlas V. The mission involved special prelaunch coordination with Canada and the U.K. If a...
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