Hmmmm ... from my admittedly amateur perception, this is how it works: Missiles launch things. The missile splashed down in the Pacific somewhere. Who knows what its payload was. If it was a satellite payload, it “splashed down” in orbit.
If anything was put into orbit, we know about it.
We supposedly don’t.
If you were going to launch a satellite into orbit, you wouldn’t launch it from a sub, 50-100 miles out into the sea off the coast of the US. Your submarine would have to be REALLY REALLY BIG.
Surely then, our west coast fleet is steaming there to 'recover' this 'foreign technology'.