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SpaceX Aims To Launch Secretive Zuma Spacecraft This Week

By Marc Selinger

Wednesday, January 3rd, 2018

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SpaceX Aims To Launch Secretive Zuma Spacecraft This Week

SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket launches June 28, 2015, at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. Photo: NASA.

The U.S. government’s mysterious Zuma spacecraft, whose launch was postponed from November, is now slated to lift off Jan. 5, according to SpaceX.The Falcon 9 rocket that will carry Zuma to low Earth orbit underwent a propellant loading test Jan. 3 on its launch pad at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, SpaceX tweeted.Zuma was supposed to be launched Nov. 16 but was delayed because SpaceX said it wanted to “take a closer look at data from recent fairing testing…

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