Analysts Disagree About Classified Sat Zuma’s Fate

Credit: ©Peter Horstink
Of this there is no doubt: At 8 p.m. on Jan. 7, a SpaceX Falcon 9 lifted off from Cape Canaveral AFS carrying a classified U.S. government payload code-named Zuma. After that, things get murky. A pilot flying over East Africa snapped pictures of the rocket’s upper stage depressurizing and venting...

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