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SpaceX Launches Secretive Zuma Spacecraft

By Marc Selinger

Monday, January 8th, 2018

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SpaceX Launches Secretive Zuma Spacecraft

A Falcon 9 launch in January 2014. Photo: SpaceX.

SpaceX launched the U.S. government’s mysterious Zuma spacecraft late Jan. 7 from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.Built by Northrop Grumman [NOC], Zuma lifted off on a two-stage Falcon 9 rocket on its way to low Earth orbit for an undisclosed agency. Northrop Grumman had no immediate comment on Zuma's fate, but SpaceX, which has been touting the reusability of its products, said the rocket’s first stage landed as planned at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.“We do not…

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