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Gov officials conclude SpaceX not at fault for Zuma satellite separation failure, report says

In turns out, SpaceXwas indeed not responsible for the loss of a top-secret government satellite that fell back to earth and was destroyed following a Falcon 9 rocket launch earlier this year, a report in The Wall Street Journal today states.
The Zuma satellite’s purpose was highly classified, but the fate of the project, which was rumored to cost $3.5 billion to develop, was covered in a high-profile fashion because it was intimately tied to a live-streamed SpaceX launch. Sources familiar
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