Atlas V RocketFrom The Danger Room:
No one in government is taking credit for a secret payload launched out of Cape Canaveral yesterday. But helping to provide clues to the mystery payload are amateur sky watchers, who believe the mission is designed to address a coverage gap created by delays in other big-ticket military satellite programs, reports Spaceflight Now.
Lockheed Martin has confirmed that its spacecraft, called PAN, was launched atop an Atlas V, but the company isn’t providing much in the way of details. Neither is the U.S. Air Force. “This launch helps to ensure that vital communications will continue to bolster our nation’s capabilities and showcases why the 45th Space Wing is the world’s premiere gateway to space,” Brig. Gen. Edward L. Bolton, Jr., 45th Space Wing commander said in an official press release.
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My Comment: I have no comment on this one except to say that a rocket was launched, and no one is talking.
The fact that no one is talking tells me that the payload is super-secret .... and it will remain as such for the foreseeable future.