
The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) last Friday night successfully launched the second mission of its proliferated space architecture aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, executing on plans to sustain relatively routine delivery of spy satellites into orbit. The NROL-186 mission, which lifted off at 11:14 p.m. EDT from Space Launch Complex-4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base, Calif., follows the first launch in May of the agency’s proliferated space architecture. The May 22 launch aboard a Falcon 9 also occurred…