Spy Satellite Zuma

What happened is unclear.

Spy satellite zuma. By dan broadbent january 9 2018 9 44 pm 1 comment. The zuma satellite failed to separate from the final stage and returned to earth along with the final stage and no satellite is in orbit. The internet s community of amateur satellite trackers eventually gave us what appears to be virtually an open and shut case for the most likely purpose of zuma. Meet the amateur astronomers who track secretive spy satellites for fun if zuma is still up there these are the people who might spot it.

Spacex not to blame for zuma spy satellite launch failure. From wikipedia the free encyclopedia usa 280 codenamed zuma was a classified united states government satellite that was launched by spacex on 8 january 2018. A billion dollar spy satellite zuma launched by spacex was lost. It was discovered in russian space blogs by an anonymous tracker in hong kong who goes by cosmic penguin and reported by marco langbroek.

The falcon 9 rocket stands vertical at pad 39a on wednesday afternoon. Government asset which officially doesn t exist and. The cost of the missing u s. Report a spacex falcon 9 rocket launches the zuma mission for the u s.

The specific agency in charge of the zuma project has not been disclosed nor its purpose. If this is the case eventually the space track catalog will be updated and usa 280 will be removed. 7 2018 from florida s cape canaveral.

A secret american spy satellite code named zuma didn t reach orbit in sunday s failed spacex rocket launch. Zuma could be a surveillance mission a spy satellite an experimental tech demo or something else.