Sonic booms heard in Florida caused by secret spaceplane returning to Earth
(www.fox35orlando.com)
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Forgot they need to install a usb to the satellite and download the data and fly back down to their Alienware computers and analyze the data.
Don’t you think they could do all of that remotely?
Correct. It could have been done remotely, but that would require radio transmission of the data, allowing it to be intercepted pretty easily. (Plus I'm certain its had many TB of data, possibly several PB)
Additionally, the spaceplane had been in low-orbit for a record setting 908 days. Now that its mission is done (space election surveilance?) it should return.