Air Force may push for DMSP-20 launch after February on-orbit failure

By Courtney Albon / March 16, 2016 at 10:16 AM
The Air Force may seek to revive its last grounded legacy weather satellite to mitigate last month's on-orbit failure of another satellite in the constellation. The service has been weighing the fate of the last space vehicle in the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program for the last few years -- advocating in 2015 to scrap the satellite due to its cost and relatively outdated technology, and then in its fiscal year 2016 budget proposal requesting money to launch it due to...

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