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ZUMA: Multi BILLION Dollar Military Failure

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Hawkeye10

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The classified intelligence satellite, code-named Zuma and built by Northrop Grumman Corp, failed to separate from the second stage of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket and is assumed to have broken up or plunged into the sea, two officials said on Monday on condition of anonymity.
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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...after-loss-of-u-s-spy-satellite-idUSKBN1EY2DA

I mean come ON boys and girls, we know how to do this, or at least we used to. Billions of dollars (we are not allowed to know how many, because this is America @2018) wasted, assuming that the thing would have worked perhaps very important abilities we will not have till we build another one and get it operational, which as badly as we suck now could take awhile....

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On a positive note Musk is now over 20 launches of this rocket without a failure of it.
 
Hawkeye10 said:
Billions of dollars (we are not allowed to know how many, because this is America @2018) wasted, assuming that the thing would have worked perhaps very important abilities we will not have till we build another one and get it operational, which as badly as we suck now could take awhile....
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Actually, the cost is far-far less. On average a spy satellite including all construction and launching fees is at most around $400 million. And this would have been even lower than in the past, The Falcon 9 can be reused, so launching costs are lower.

But the cost is nowhere near "billions of dollars".

And failures like this are not unusual. On average 4-5 satellites will fail to launch properly every year.
 
Musk is all "**** it man, we did our job...ONWARD!"

I like that.








His auto business is still a disaster.
 
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