U.S. Spy Satellite Believed Lost After SpaceX Mission Fails Secret payload code-named Zuma failed to reach orbit after Sunday launch; industry officials estimate satellite worth billions
An expensive, highly classified U.S. spy satellite is presumed to be a total loss after it failed to reach orbit atop a Space Exploration Technologies Corp. rocket on Sunday, according to industry and government officials.
Lawmakers and congressional staffers from the Senate and the House have been briefed about the botched mission, some of the officials said. The secret payload—code-named Zuma and launched from Florida on board a Falcon 9 rocket—is believed to have plummeted back into the atmosphere, they said, because it...
Wait but didn't they stream the rocket being launched and landing?
Nicholas Hill
This is what they want the enemy to believe. Now to figure out who exactly the enemy is.
Lucas Mitchell
Yeah, the main rocket landed but it seems that the satellite booster stage has failed.
Angel Peterson
>launches top secret US military satellite into orbit >probably nuclear strike capabilities >pretends the payload never made it to space >now nuclear satellite is doubly hidden
Isaiah Evans
They should have given the satellite the codename UMA that it would have been 100% delicia
Leo Gonzalez
God, that would be so fucking dubious. Good on Muck for letting his stock drop in defense of his country.
Austin Jackson
Bullshit. Obvious cover up.
Blake Torres
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Christopher Lopez
Bullshit cover
Eli Nelson
>spy-satellite-believed-lost That's what they want everyone to think. >Oh no, spy satellite lost
Eli Powell
>Shut down NASA space program bc reasons >Rely on Russia for most of it >"oh shit, super secret satellite. Cant have Russia do this, it would be emberresing" >Crashes and burns Another black eye for the government
Juan Miller
Wrong, Musk said the F9 performed nominally. There is no evidence Zuma does not work. It is a military strike sonic attack sat that can melt the brains of soldiers from orbit.
Justin Gomez
musk is a loser hahahahhahh btfo NASA rules Trumpsylvania first colony on Mars
Dominic Morales
>let everyone know you're launching a TOP SECRET payload >tell everyone your TOP SECRET payload exploded to make it TOP TOP SECRET
Can you not see the absurdity of your logic?
Jason Clark
fug
Luke Garcia
It's not Musk's fault. SpaceX did their part perfectly, a failed fairing/payload uncoupling is all on Northrop Grumman. Funny how NG owns Orbital ATK, a competitor to SpaceX. They'll probably try to blame SpaceX anyway.
Daniel Sanchez
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Aiden Lopez
Yes, because they'll totally admit a Northrop payload reached destination on a civ company piggyback. Are you retarded?
Ayden Mitchell
I'm pretty sure it's easily traceable if it reached orbit or fell down.
If they gobement wanted total secrecy they wouldnt have reported satellite launch in the first place.
Anthony Rogers
They can now deny existance of this spy satellite, you dumbass. That was the whole point.
James Carter
If he even had a choice.
Jack Mitchell
Yes, please Hanz, tell me more about government logic.
Aiden Jackson
>Launch satellite >what is that? >LOL CANT TELL YOU IT BROKE
Joseph King
>implying they would ever let it reach the public if it was so top secret that it's worth lying to the public and destroying a tech business
Jayden Roberts
No, dumbass. If it is top secret they would not make press releases discussing spacex's "top secret payload" to the public for weeks in advance.
Brody Collins
This is what happens when your nazi scientists are all dead and all you have left is 56%'ers and tyrones working on engineering projects. Americans are truly fucking pathetic.
Luis Brown
MUSLIMS IN SPACE
IN SPACE, NO ONE CAN HEAR YOU GO ALLAHU AKBAR!!!
Camden Price
>implying they could launch a rocket into space without anyone noticing
Nicholas Myers
hahahahahahahahaha eat shit cianiggers you can't even launch satellites because you suck
Jaxson Phillips
Why the fuck report the TOP SECRET SATELLITE launch in the first place?
Fuck, you people are stupid.
Bentley Garcia
What a fucking naive faggot you are. You must be frome the born-in-2000 faggot wave.
James Wright
He is polish m8, you're wasting your time.
Jaxson Barnes
The enemy wouldn't read tabloids, they would have their own sensors track the thing. It probably did fail.
Luis Reed
>thinks a satellite can be ROCKETED into orbit without anyone noticing
Nathan Bailey
>implying they don't already have all kinds of rockets that go up and put satellites up there without anyone knowing since the 60s and 70s
Jace Hernandez
>implying they couldn't just make up any bullshit story about the Falcon 9 launch
Cameron Morris
Poland successfully ran a secret space program, after all.
Asher White
>why the fuck would they even announce they even have spy agencies
Isaiah Gonzalez
They can you retard.
Daniel Baker
Wheres the archive version pal?
Jacob Cox
yeah this does smell if disninformation
No video recording of it exploding , no nothing.
I SMELL COVER UP
Henry Cook
not exactly a secret is it
Adam Thomas
Why's SpaceX launching spy satellites for the U.S? Isn't the NRO supposed to be in charge of that
Colton Jones
>implying that while Earthquakes in China can register in California ground sensors, a rocket 15ton 160dB rocket can leave Earth covertly.
Ayden Gonzalez
This is like a story from Star Trek.
Isaiah Jenkins
This report makes just as much sense if it failed as if it didn't. How many questions will get asked about this payload after this current news cycle?
Henry Reyes
yeah i bet they all kinds of stealth rockets that don't make massive sounds, fire, and don't have to travel over 1/3 the Usa to be seen by all to get into space
Ryder Cook
>Poland successfully ran a secret space program, after all. ayyyyyyyyy, who said Auzzie shitposting was dead.
Cameron Lee
I thought SpaceX only made single stage boosters. If that's the case then the satellite booster would probably have been Thiokal (sp?).
Chase Morris
Did you know that the majority of NRO personnel are in fact external Contractors? >Guess not.
Austin Harris
Nobody questions a noisy rocket if it's normal in the area.
Adam Harris
>can see objects 20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 km away >can't see a rocket leaving Earth
Bentley Ortiz
>No video recording of it exploding , no nothing. Supposedly, It burned down in the atmosphere
Cameron Scott
Considering the Govt. subsidies he has directly benefited from he should be willing to do this with a smile on his face 10x over.
Brayden Williams
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Grayson Bell
It was sabotage.
Easton Lewis
I'll just scratch it off as fake MSM for now until solid evidence appears that it indeed crashed.
Brody Clark
>another rocket, another day
Hunter Wilson
That's kinda what they did, user.
>oops it crashed, don't need proof :DDD
Grayson Bell
They have to announce if their later plan is to say it failed. Could be part of our preparations for a strike -- seem incompetent. Make it seem like the invasion must be set back 3 months now, when in reality everything is on schedule.
Aiden Nelson
You're a fucking retard, just kys already stupid CIA nigger. No one's gonna believe you, except for abos.
Rocket performed correctly as per plan. Skytrack seems to think the payload has completed at least one orbit. This does not seem to have anything to do with SpaceX. Might just be a cover up.
Jackson Lee
>expects gov't would say where it's property is >gov't does not say, therefore conspiracy
Isaiah Hughes
>Following SpaceX’s launch, a new entry was made in the catalogue on Space-Track.org for a US satellite designated USA 280. That likely means someone within Strategic Command added Zuma to the catalogue after the satellite completed an orbit.
SPACEX DID NOTHING WRONG
Leo Myers
see
Lucas Allen
it's pretty obvious that this is a coverup, zuma is in orbit right now but now the gov has an excuse to pretend it isn't, and an easy in to launch another sat
Jose Thomas
No, I expect a picture of it burning though.
I've seen a picture of the second stage deploying properly. I haven't seen one of the second stage fizzling
Austin Smith
It was meant to rendevous with another satellite and settle into an identical orbit. I am guessing they collided
Jordan Hernandez
We just launched an enormous nuke barrage into orbit.
Henry Hernandez
I think Best Koreans ought to specifically monitor this particular satellite, this could have something to do with regime change agendas there.
Nicholas Wilson
>expects information that would lead him to know where rocket fell >therefore conspiracy I used to believe that conspiracies has some valid evidence...until I ran into people like you. Anyway, it's late, time for sleep.
My money is on the secret payload being the "Rod of God" or similar kinetic weapon. It's up there and ready to go. Mattis ordered it. Bye Kim.
Ethan Barnes
If you look at the government funded space missions this doesn't necessarily mean SpaceX's services are inferior in the long term.
Lots of people died on those shitty American rockets.
Hunter Morales
"Space satellite" There must be 5 million space satellites out there. Every week there's a super duper secret satellite launch. My ass. Hopefully that rocket was full of Rothchilds.
Ryder Cruz
Elon and his employees signed a NDA Imagine knowing your rocket performed nominally and the payload is up there, but you can't say shit.
Caleb Smith
Dont forget, my american comrade, kim has a bunch of orbit capable rockets on standby all loaded with junk ready to by sprayed in orbit.
this will not only destroy your zuma , but many other satellites as well, you'll become even less popular on an international level than you are now.
Hudson Campbell
>We can't get into space
AHHAHAHAHAHHAHA we told you guys, there is no way to get into space. There never will be.
There is a dome covering the Earth, and the Earth is FLAT.
Nothing may leave this flat plane. The government has known about this since the 1960s, with Operation Fishbowl. (Google it). Every single rocket always hits a dome, and gets destroyed.
>It is a military strike sonic attack sat that can melt the brains of soldiers from orbit. sounds like bullshit but post source
Jose Peterson
????
I don't give a shit where it landed. Prove it failed.
Leo Sullivan
Peace out zuma
Isaac Miller
Doggo looks like it's living out its life in prison
Ayden Foster
Notice how SpaceX is getting alot of recognition after the LA incident, same thing with the UGM-133 launch in 2015. Both different rocket trails and obviously not fucking rockets, both company CEO's funded days after and before each incident under a dummy stock. Retarded majority actually believes the shit they say.
Michael Gray
He just knows he lives in Korea.
Blake Garcia
Hahaha
Luis Johnson
but you can shoot a rocket into space with nobody knowing what is inside. telling the press that the rocket is carrying super utra top secret alien world ending technology would be totally stupid.
Austin Hall
Would someone explain to me why the American government would pick Elon Musk to launch some super sekrit stuff into space let alone announce it one mass media?
Jeremiah Gomez
No shit but they aren't shooting it into Space, check out the 2015 LA incident under the company LMSS. Why the fuck would you launch a LCBM into space? And why the hell does the Falcon 9 FT launch that supposedly happened a month ago in LA by SpaceX have the same trail pattern as a LMSS missile??? The rockets serve entirely different purposes with entirely different parts and shit.
Joshua Reyes
because it's their only viable option worthy of trust?
unless they want to go ahead and trust russians or chinks to launch it for them
Ryan Hughes
Don't know but Musk was signed a contract by the gov days before the LA launch and approved for underground tunnel systems meant for "geo" engineering
Hudson Gonzalez
Ahhh the old blow up the rocket after orbit and claim it a failure rope a dope...well played, how will NK ever recover
Carson Lopez
SLBM** Not LCBM
Leo Hall
What is Odyssey 5? Tell me about the "Bright Sky" project. Is this the work of sentients?
