More good news:SpaceX gets good news from the Air Force on the Zuma missionQuote"Based on the data available, our team did not identify any information that would change SpaceX's Falcon 9 certification status," Lieutenant General John Thompson, commander of the Space and Missile Systems Center, told Bloomberg News. This qualified conclusion came after a preliminary review of data from the Zuma launch. That's according to Thompson, who said the Air Force will continue to review data from all launches.https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/01/spacex-gets-good-news-from-the-air-force-on-the-zuma-mission/
"Based on the data available, our team did not identify any information that would change SpaceX's Falcon 9 certification status," Lieutenant General John Thompson, commander of the Space and Missile Systems Center, told Bloomberg News. This qualified conclusion came after a preliminary review of data from the Zuma launch. That's according to Thompson, who said the Air Force will continue to review data from all launches.
I see that the discussion thread for the Zuma mission is closed, and probably rightfully so. But... I read in that discussion somewhere that there was a ship that was mysteriously dispatched to resume a search for the missing MH370 aircraft in an area that was projected for the potential landing of the Zuma satellite. Now I read that that ship mysteriously turned off its tracking for the past 3 days. Connected? I don't know, better minds than mine might be able to decipher this and see if it relates to the Zuma mission. Source: https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/world/mh370-search-vessel-%e2%80%98disappears%e2%80%99-for-three-days-after-mysteriously-switching-off-its-tracking-system/ar-BBIKd8i?li=BBqdg4K&ocid=wispr
But now, these people said, two separate teams of federal and industry investigators have pinpointed reasons for the high-profile loss to problems with a Northrop-modified part -- called a payload adapter -- that failed to operate properly in space.