According to the news on the space.com website, the satellite, whose function is kept secret, was launched from the Vandenberg Space Forces Base in California, USA at 23:14 Located by the Falcon 9 rocket of SpaceX.
The launch was released live on the internet, while the first stage of the rocket carrying the Nrol-57 returned to the space base as planned about 7.5 minutes after launch.
While the upper stage of the rocket continued to move the loads of the satellite to orbit, when or where these loads would be deployed was not specified.
The intelligence unit responsible for the design, production, launch and operation of the exploration satellites in the USA is not known for which task of the satellite of the National Discovery Office (NRO).
The rocket used in the mission, previously Nrol-126, Transporter-12 and Spherex telescope mission had also thrown into space.
