SpaceX not to blame for lost mystery satellite, report says, Cnet “A super secretive US government satellite SpaceX launched in January never made it to orbit after it failed to separate from the upper stage of a Falcon 9 rocket. Three months later, it still appears the satellite manufacturer Northrop Grumman may be to blame for the loss and not SpaceX. A new report from The Wall Street Journal published […]
Search For Zuma Unearths Lost NASA Satellite, Aviation Week (Paywall) “An amateur astronomer on the hunt for the classified Zuma satellite has discovered a long-lost NASA science satellite. “Over the past week. the station has been dedicated to an S-band scan looking for new targets and refreshing the frequency list, triggered by the recent launch of the mysterious Zuma mission,” amateur visual and radio astronomer Scott Tilley wrote on his […]
SpaceX gets good news from the Air Force on the Zuma mission, Ars Technica “A little more than two weeks have passed since the apparent loss of the highly classified Zuma mission. Since then, SpaceX has publicly and privately stated that its Falcon 9 rocket performed nominally throughout the flight–with both its first and second stages firing as anticipated. Now, the US Air Force seems to be backing the rocket […]
Lost in space? Questions mount over fate of secret satellite as SpaceX pushes ahead, Washington Post “U.S. Rep. John Garamendi (D-Calif.), who said he received a “preliminary briefing,” had two concerns about the possible loss of the satellite. “One is the loss of the intelligence that would have been available,” he said. “The second concern is the reliability of the delivery systems. And that issue is being debated between the […]
Statement From Gwynne Shotwell, President and COO of SpaceX on Zuma Launch “For clarity: after review of all data to date, Falcon 9 did everything correctly on Sunday night. If we or others find otherwise based on further review, we will report it immediately. Information published that is contrary to this statement is categorically false. Due to the classified nature of the payload, no further comment is possible. “ It’s […]