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01-09-2018, 10:54 PM
Secret government satellite’s fate remains a secret
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Just call it Schrödinger's rocket launch.
A classified government mission launched to space atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket may or may not be functioning in orbit after its Sunday night launch from Florida; but aside from some rumors and anonymous quotes, we really don't know what's going on with the U.S.'s secret satellite.
SEE ALSO: SpaceX launches secret government mission, brings rocket back in for a landing (http://mashable.com/2018/01/07/spacex-launches-secret-zuma-mission-government-payload/)
According to anonymous sources quoted in stories published in the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-09/spacex-launched-satellite-isn-t-seen-in-orbit-pentagon-says?utm_content=tech&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&cmpid%3D=socialflow-twitter-tech), the mission — codenamed Zuma — appears to have failed to separate from the rocket as expected after launch.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2018/01/09/secret-zuma-spacecraft-failure-spacex-launch/)
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Just call it Schrödinger's rocket launch.
A classified government mission launched to space atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket may or may not be functioning in orbit after its Sunday night launch from Florida; but aside from some rumors and anonymous quotes, we really don't know what's going on with the U.S.'s secret satellite.
SEE ALSO: SpaceX launches secret government mission, brings rocket back in for a landing (http://mashable.com/2018/01/07/spacex-launches-secret-zuma-mission-government-payload/)
According to anonymous sources quoted in stories published in the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-09/spacex-launched-satellite-isn-t-seen-in-orbit-pentagon-says?utm_content=tech&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&cmpid%3D=socialflow-twitter-tech), the mission — codenamed Zuma — appears to have failed to separate from the rocket as expected after launch.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2018/01/09/secret-zuma-spacecraft-failure-spacex-launch/)
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