{"id":144299,"date":"2018-01-07T21:25:44","date_gmt":"2018-01-08T02:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=144299"},"modified":"2018-01-07T21:25:44","modified_gmt":"2018-01-08T02:25:44","slug":"spacex-launches-secret-satellite-zuma-on-1st-flight-of-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/01\/07\/spacex-launches-secret-satellite-zuma-on-1st-flight-of-year\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX launches secret satellite Zuma on 1st flight of year"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_144300\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-144300\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/640px-SpaceX_KSC_LC-39A_hangar_23791728242.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-144300\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/640px-SpaceX_KSC_LC-39A_hangar_23791728242.jpg\" alt=\"SpaceX's rocket hangar at Kennedy Space Center SLC-39A (Photo By Pushkr - https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pushkargujar\/23791728242\/, CC BY 2.0)\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/640px-SpaceX_KSC_LC-39A_hangar_23791728242.jpg 640w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/640px-SpaceX_KSC_LC-39A_hangar_23791728242-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-144300\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SpaceX&#8217;s rocket hangar at Kennedy Space Center SLC-39A (<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=45809590\">Photo By Pushkr &#8211; https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pushkargujar\/23791728242\/, CC BY 2.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. &#8212; SpaceX has launched a secret satellite codenamed Zuma on its first flight of the new year.<\/p>\n<p>The unmanned Falcon rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Sunday night, carrying the satellite toward an undisclosed orbit.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX ended launch commentary five minutes into the flight, due to the classified nature of the U.S. satellite. But the company continued to broadcast the return of the first-stage booster to Cape Canaveral, where it landed upright as part of a recycling effort.<\/p>\n<p>Northrop Grumman provided the satellite, for which government agency it wouldn&#8217;t say. The name Zuma refers to a Southern California beach.<\/p>\n<p>Last year was a banner year for SpaceX , with 18 launches. It&#8217;s aiming for more this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. &#8212; SpaceX has launched a secret satellite codenamed Zuma on its first flight of the new year. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":144300,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24157,16],"tags":[42057,949,42058,42059,3756,42056],"class_list":["post-144299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-american-news","category-news","tag-cape-canaveral","tag-florida","tag-northrop-grumman","tag-southern-california-beach","tag-spacex","tag-zuma","mauthors-marcia-dunn","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}