Watch SpaceX launch secret US spy satellites to orbit from California today

SpaceX will launch a batch of spy satellites for the U.S. government this evening (May 11), and you can watch the action live. A Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to lift off from California's Vandenberg Space Force Base today, on a mission for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) called NROL-172. Launch will occur during a four-hour window that opens at 6:28 p.m. EDT (2228 GMT; 3:28 p.m. local California time). …