The launch took place at 14:15 Moscow time from the cosmodrome on Cape Canaveral. Aboard the rocket was a secret spy-satellite, whose purpose is kept secret. It is known that the National office of the military space U.S. intelligence has concluded with SpaceX the contract on several launches, which aim at the elimination of the secret satellites control into orbit. The first took place today.
SpaceX reports that the flight lasted nine minutes, after which the first stage of the rocket Falcon 9 returned to Earth and successful village near the start.
For SpaceX launch of a secret satellite was the first experience of such a plan, but the return of the first stage is looking more like not test attempts, and more or less run-in technology. It is to use reusable first stage in SpaceX and strive, hoping that in the future the same tier can be used up to twenty times.
At the moment, SpaceX turned with a gap of a year just to run the same stage twice, but it should be.
The first stage of Falcon 9 made a successful landing after the launch of a secret satellite
Vyacheslav Larionov