{"id":21695,"date":"2017-11-17T07:55:21","date_gmt":"2017-11-17T05:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.radioislam.org.za\/wordpress\/2017\/11\/17\/space-x-postpones-zuma-launch\/"},"modified":"2017-11-17T07:55:21","modified_gmt":"2017-11-17T05:55:21","slug":"space-x-postpones-zuma-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/space-x-postpones-zuma-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Space X Postpones &#8220;Zuma&#8221; Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><em>Faizel Patel, Radio Islam News &#8211; 17-11-2017<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">SpaceX has postponed the launch of a secretive US government payload known as Zuma, a mission whose nature &#8211; and the agency behind it &#8211; is a mystery.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The aerospace manufacturer says they decided to postpone the launch on Thursday and take a closer look at data from recent fairing testing for another customer about two hours before the planned launch window was to open.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Though we have preserved the range opportunity for tomorrow, we will take the time we need to complete the data review and will then confirm a new launch date.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">SpaceX and the Pentagon did not respond to requests for comment about the nature of the mission.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Northrup Grumman, the maker of the payload, says it was for the US government and would be delivered to low-Earth orbit, but offered no other details.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">SpaceX is no stranger to national security launches.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier this year the California-based company headed by South African-born billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk launched a spy satellite for the National Reconnaissance Office, and an X-37B space plane for the US Air Force.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FaizelPatel143\" rel=\"alternate\">Twitter: @FaizelPatel143<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Faizel Patel, Radio Islam News &#8211; 17-11-2017 SpaceX has postponed the launch of a secretive US government payload known as Zuma, a mission whose nature &#8211; and the agency behind it &#8211; is a mystery. The aerospace manufacturer says they decided to postpone the launch on Thursday and take a closer look at data [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-reviews"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pc0QIf-5DV","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-09 12:35:06","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}