On Jan/13/2018 at 9:16 AM, Jeff Findley wrote :
In article ,
says...

Maybe Zuma is gone, maybe it isn't:

"Rumors are swirling about the fate of a top-secret spacecraft, known as Zuma,
which Northrop Grumman supposedly built for an unknown U.S. government agency and
launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon-9 rocket on Jan. 7, 2018. There are a number of
theories about what might have happened already circulating, but a fairly obvious
one seems glaringly absent: that the satellite didn't crash at all and that it?s
working as planned."

See:

http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone...as-intended-to

Hard to say exactly, but from the people that have talked a bit about it
(Congressional staffers leaking that the mission failed to the press),
I'd say it failed. It's quite unlikely that whoever owns this thing in
the US Government would lie to Congress and it's unlikely that
Congressional staffers would leak a lie.

They wouldn't lie to congress, but they would give incomplete and
misleading information. Someone who doesn't know what happened to
the mission can tell a few congressmen that he doesn't know what
happened and can't establish contact with the spacecraft. It can
also be a little more removed. People working at the right agency
making sure that they are overheard by someone who is going to
talk to people at congress.

Disseminating false information without breaking the law is a skill
that is well developed in some circles.


Alain Fournier