SpaceX launched the classified Zuma spacecraft (USA-280) for the U.S. government, reportedly the National Reconnaissance Office, from Cape Canaveral. The Falcon 9 booster landed successfully, but the payload reportedly failed to separate from its adapter and was lost.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 8 T (est.)
- Flight
- 5th
- of 12 Falcon 9 Block 4 flights
- Date and time
- 8 January 2018, 01:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Falcon 9 Block 4
- Builder
- SpaceX
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 2018-001
- Launches in 2018
- 1st of 114
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