secret. Said to be spy communications but payload is secret. Patch for mission shows a knight wielding a sword to slay a attacking dragon - the dragon has sword wounds. The prior launch of this type of rocket had a knight wielding a sword and a less menacing dragon without wounds. Supposedly these flight patches have meaning.
Oh I’m sure they have a meaning.
Dragon, eh? Hmmmm.....
Flames shot all over lower half at liftoff.
Thought it was going to blow up.
The obvious presumption is that the dragon is China.