Tag: payload

02 FEB

Forget the Falcon Heavy’s payload and focus on where the rocket will go

Enlarge / Elon Musk speaks at a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, April 5, 2011. (credit: Brendan Hoffman/Bloomberg via Getty Images) Elon Musk appeared almost boyish back in April 2011 as he unveiled the Falcon Heavy rocket to a handful of reporters at the National Press Club. […]

09 JAN

What we know, and what we don’t about the secretive Zuma payload

SpaceX On Sunday night, SpaceX launched a classified payload known only as “Zuma” for the US government. But once in space, something went wrong. Here’s what we know so far. What is Zuma? It was a government satellite or spacecraft built by Northrop Grumman, which contracted with SpaceX to launch it into low-Earth orbit. By […]

07 JAN

SpaceX to launch top secret ‘Zuma’ payload after weeks of delays

Published time: 7 Jan, 2018 14:17 SpaceX will finally launch Zuma, a mysterious “restricted” payload for the US government, on Sunday – weather permitting. A series of snaps and poor weather have delayed the project for months. The launch is set to take place at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida between 8pm […]

03 JUL

SpaceX tries again to lift its heaviest payload ever to geostationary orbit

Enlarge / The Falcon 9 rocket, with the Intelsat 35e payload on the launch pad at Kennedy Space Center. (credit: SpaceX) SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket almost made it off a Florida launch pad on Sunday evening—but with just nine seconds to go before liftoff the on-board computers detected an issue within the rocket’s guidance, navigation, […]