Rocket didn’t malfunction, SpaceX president says

LOS ANGELES — SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell pushed back against reports that her company’s Falcon 9 rocket might have malfunctioned during Sunday’s launch of a classified spy satellite.

News reports said the satellite, named Zuma, may have plunged back toward Earth. But Shotwell said Tuesday morning that “after review of all data to date, Falcon 9 did everything correctly on Sunday night.”

Reports began to trickle in Monday afternoon that Zuma, which was said to be worth more than $1 billion, might have been lost after it was launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida aboard a SpaceX rocket.

The Wall Street Journal reported Monday night that the satellite did not separate as intended after the firing of the rocket’s second stage. Instead, it plunged back into the atmosphere, according to the Journal.

Bloomberg reported Monday night that the Falcon 9’s secondstage booster section failed. One of the aides told Bloomberg that both the satellite and the rocket’s second stage fell into the ocean. A. Wynn Jr. said Republicans in North Carolina’s legislature were ‘‘motivated by invidious partisan intent’’ when they carried out their obligation in 2016 to divide the state into 13 congressional districts, 10 of which are held by Republicans. The result, Wynn wrote, violated the 14th Amendment’s guarantee of equal protection.

The legislature was ordered to create a new landscape of congressional districts by Jan. 24. with U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke at the airport in Tallahassee on Tuesday afternoon. “As a result of our interest in making sure that there’s no drilling here, Florida will be taken off the table,” Scott said.

The airport meeting came five days after the Trump administration made the controversial announcement that it would open a massive area to offshore oil exploration. That brought howls of protest from governors as far north as New Jersey and included Scott, a Trump supporter. bomb-making materials showed Russell to be a dangerous neoNazi leader.

Russell, 22, a member of the Florida National Guard, pleaded guilty in September and was sentenced Tuesday by U.S. District Judge Susan Bucklew.

In May 2017, Tampa police were called to an apartment north of downtown. There, they found two dead men. A roommate of one of the men sat outside, crying. That turned out to be Russell.

A fourth roommate, Devon Arthurs, was arrested and charged with shooting and killing Andrew Oneschuk and Jeremy Himmelman. Russell wasn’t charged in the killings.