After the rumors of the failed Zuma mission, two of SpaceX’s biggest customers announced there continued support for the company, SES having reviewed the data from the Zuma flight said there January 30th launch was still on schedule.
As we have previously posted, news on Zuma is limited, but it seems clear from these customers they are confident in the Falcon 9 rocket and are trusting them to continue to launch payloads.
SES sent the following tweet this week
Looking forward to @GovSatLu 1st #satellite launch with @SpaceX. Following Zuma mission, our engineering staff have reviewed all relevant launch vehicle flight data following last Falcon-9 launcher mission. We are confident on SpaceX readiness & set for Govsat-1 launch late Jan!
— SES (@SES_Satellites) January 17, 2018
And Iridium boss Matt Desch tweeted
Tom, this is a typical industry smear job on the "upstart" trying to disrupt the launch industry. @SpaceX didn't have a failure, Northrup Grumman did. Notice that no one in the media is interested in that story. SpaceX will pay the price as the one some will try to bring low.
— Matt Desch (@IridiumBoss) January 11, 2018
No. Process of elimination. I believe SpaceX statements, and have my own beliefs about what probably happened. Just find it sloppy and lazy to blame SpaceX when others more likely at fault (but won’t/can’t talk).
— Matt Desch (@IridiumBoss) January 11, 2018
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