Tag: Zuma
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Report: Probe blames Zuma spy satellite’s loss on Northrop Grumman, not SpaceX
News Brief: Investigators have tentatively concluded that January’s loss of a U.S. spy satellite code-named Zuma was due to problems with a payload adapter that was provided by the satellite’s manufacturer, Northrop Grumman, rather than the SpaceX Falcon 9 launch vehicle, The Wall Street Journal reported today. One unnamed source told the Journal that the…
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Investigation into Zuma failure reportedly lays blame on Northrop Grumman
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket lifted off Jan. 7 from Cape Canaveral with the Zuma mission. Credit: SpaceX Government investigators have exonerated SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket in the loss of a top secret space mission known as Zuma in January, blaming a malfunction in a component modified by Northrop Grumman that connected the launcher with its…
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Amid Zuma satellite controversy, SpaceX gets a vote of confidence from Air Force
News Brief: The classified satellite known as Zuma was said to have disappeared soon after its Jan. 7 launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, but the commander of the Air Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center is giving SpaceX a qualified thumbs-up. “Based on the data available, our team did not identify any information…
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Fate of mystery Zuma satellite in question
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket lifted off at 8 p.m. EDT Sunday (0100 GMT Monday) from Cape Canaveral with the Zuma mission. Credit: SpaceX A classified satellite code-named Zuma, launched Sunday night atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, may have suffered a mission-ending failure during or shortly after the…
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Mysterious U.S. government spy satellite believed to be lost after SpaceX launch
Blast-off for the Zuma mission on Sunday. (SpaceX Photo) Turns out this weekend’s SpaceX mission didn’t go off without a hitch, after all. The secret U.S. government payload — believed to be a spy satellite — failed to reach orbit and fell back into the atmosphere, according to a Wall Street Journal report, citing industry…
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SpaceX launches clandestine Zuma satellite – questions over spacecraft’s health
SpaceX launched its first mission of 2018, involving the secretive Zuma spacecraft. The launch took place on Sunday and while SpaceX note the performance of the rocket was nominal, there are growing questions over the fate of the spacecraft, with some reports it has failed. The secrecy surrounding the Zuma launch resulted in the launch…
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SpaceX launches ‘Zuma’ spacecraft with secret U.S. government payload, lands Falcon 9
UPDATED: SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center this evening, carrying a secretive U.S. government payload known as “Zuma” to low-Earth orbit. Falcon 9 first stage has landed at Landing Zone 1. pic.twitter.com/679wN4F8kX — SpaceX (@SpaceX) January 8, 2018 It was SpaceX’s third classified launch for the U.S. government, this one…
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Rocket test-fired for launch of secretive U.S. government payload
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket test-fired its nine Merlin 1D engines at 6 p.m. EST (2300 GMT) Saturday in a rare nighttime static fire test. Credit: William Harwood/CBS News SpaceX moved closer to its next launch with a successful hold-down engine firing Saturday at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, sailing through a readiness check…
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Rocket test-fired for launch of secretive U.S. government payload
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket test-fired its nine Merlin 1D engines at 6 p.m. EST (2300 GMT) Saturday in a rare nighttime static fire test. Credit: William Harwood/CBS News SpaceX moved closer to its next launch with a successful hold-down engine firing Saturday at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, sailing through a readiness check…
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Video: Engines ignited for hold-down test on SpaceX’s next Falcon 9 rocket
Video credit: William Harwood/CBS News Nine Merlin main engines at the base of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket fired at launch pad 39A Saturday, passing a major test before the company’s next launch, a secretive mission slated for liftoff Wednesday night. Throttling up to full power for a few seconds, the Merlin 1D engines ignited…