Where Is the $1 Billion Secret Satellite?

SpaceX's Falcon 9 in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on April 26, 2015. NASA via Getty Images

On Sunday, Jan. 7, at about 8 p.m., a rocket lifted off at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, carrying a government satellite to a low orbit around Earth.

The Falcon 9 rocket “did everything correctly,” said Gwynne Shotwell, spokeswoman for SpaceX, the company operating the rocket.