
SpaceX insisted Jan. 9 that its Falcon 9 launch vehicle, which lifted off two days earlier with the U.S. government's secretive Zuma payload, was not to blame for the apparent failure of the mission.Gwynne Shotwell, SpaceX’s president and chief operating officer, said in a statement that after a “review of all data to date, Falcon 9 did everything correctly” in its Jan. 7 launch from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. “If we or others find otherwise based on further review,…