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Re:FCC Accuses Stealthy Startup of Launching Rogue Satellites by the8472 on Friday March 09, 2018 @06:27PM (#16555998)
> “Based on the data available, our team did not identify any information that would change SpaceX’s Falcon 9 certification status” after “a preliminary review of telemetry that was available to us from” the Jan. 7 launch, Lieutenant General John Thompson, commander of the Space and Missile Systems Center, said in a statement to Bloomberg News.
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Re:FCC Accuses Stealthy Startup of Launching Rogue Satellites by mjevans on Friday March 09, 2018 @08:16PM (#16556526)
It's also entirely plausible that the SpaceX parts did their job and something the government insisted on using / was sending up didn't work as expected.

Since failure is always possible, including from various forms of human error, and is often exacerbated by extreme conditions (such as launching to space) it is quite likely that we'll never know for sure.

It really /would/ be nice if there was a mandatory sunset period for de-classification (which required /active/ effort to keep reviewing and punting classified status forward).

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Re:FCC Accuses Stealthy Startup of Launching Rogue Satellites by badwolf on Friday March 09, 2018 @08:22PM (#16556544)
>It's also entirely plausible that the SpaceX parts did their job and something the government insisted on using / was sending up didn't work as expected.

The payload adapter was not the SpaceX built hardware SpaceX usually uses, but was built by Northrop Grumman

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Re:FCC Accuses Stealthy Startup of Launching Rogue Satellites by credit_guy on Friday March 09, 2018 @06:49PM (#16556113)
Wow, that was quick.
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