{"id":18674,"date":"2018-01-08T22:28:28","date_gmt":"2018-01-08T14:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/mysterious-u-s-government-spy-satellite-believed-to-be-lost-after-spacex-launch\/"},"modified":"2018-01-08T22:28:28","modified_gmt":"2018-01-08T14:28:28","slug":"mysterious-u-s-government-spy-satellite-believed-to-be-lost-after-spacex-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/mysterious-u-s-government-spy-satellite-believed-to-be-lost-after-spacex-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Mysterious U.S. government spy satellite believed to be lost after SpaceX launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_388805\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-388805\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full-width wp-image-388805\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/39556548902_d174084ba7_z-630x420.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"630\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/39556548902_d174084ba7_z-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/39556548902_d174084ba7_z.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\"><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" id=\"caption-attachment-388805\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blast-off for the Zuma mission on Sunday. (SpaceX Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Turns out this weekend\u2019s SpaceX mission didn\u2019t go off without a hitch, after all.<\/p>\n<p>The secret U.S. government payload \u2014 believed to be a spy satellite \u2014 failed to reach orbit and fell back into the atmosphere, according to a Wall Street Journal report, citing industry and government officials who commented anonymously on the classified mission. Citing those officials, the paper reported that the payload, code-named Zuma, apparently \u201cdidn\u2019t separate as planned from the upper part of the rocket.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The launch Sunday had appeared to go smoothly. SpaceX landed the first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket at&nbsp;Cape Canaveral Air Force Station afterward.<\/p>\n<p>Speculation has been swirling all day about the fate of the mission.<\/p>\n<p>The cost of the satellite is estimated to be in the billions. Northrup Grumman isn\u2019t commenting on the outcome, citing the classified nature of the mission. SpaceX is saying only that \u201creviews of the data indicate Falcon 9 performed nominally,\u201d or as expected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blast-off for the Zuma mission on Sunday. (SpaceX Photo) Turns out this weekend\u2019s SpaceX mission didn\u2019t go off without a hitch, after all. The secret U.S. government payload \u2014 believed to be a spy satellite \u2014 failed to reach orbit and fell back into the atmosphere, according to a Wall Street Journal report, citing industry [&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":[479,316,2989],"class_list":["post-18674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-falcon-9","tag-spacex","tag-zuma"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18674"}],"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=18674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}