{"id":18575,"date":"2018-04-09T22:25:48","date_gmt":"2018-04-09T14:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/report-probe-blames-zuma-spy-satellites-loss-on-northrop-grumman-not-spacex\/"},"modified":"2018-04-09T22:25:48","modified_gmt":"2018-04-09T14:25:48","slug":"report-probe-blames-zuma-spy-satellites-loss-on-northrop-grumman-not-spacex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/report-probe-blames-zuma-spy-satellites-loss-on-northrop-grumman-not-spacex\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Probe blames Zuma spy satellite\u2019s loss on Northrop Grumman, not SpaceX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News Brief:<\/strong> Investigators have tentatively concluded that January\u2019s loss of a U.S. spy satellite code-named Zuma was due to problems with a payload adapter that was provided by the satellite\u2019s 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 adapter failed to uncouple the satellite from the rocket under zero-gravity conditions, and that the failure wasn\u2019t detected until it was too late to try a rescue. Military officials have declined to comment publicly on Zuma\u2019s loss, but SpaceX insists its rocket performed as intended.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Blastoff! SpaceX Launches Mysterious Zuma Mission\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PiamFjEhKlw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\" data-width=\"800\" data-height=\"450\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px; width: 800px; height: 450px;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News Brief: Investigators have tentatively concluded that January\u2019s loss of a U.S. spy satellite code-named Zuma was due to problems with a payload adapter that was provided by the satellite\u2019s 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[479,554,20,316,5077,2989],"class_list":["post-18575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-falcon-9","tag-northrop-grumman","tag-satellite","tag-spacex","tag-spying","tag-zuma"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18575"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}