MUOS-5 orbital transfer maneuver halted due to 'anomaly'

By Justin Doubleday / July 20, 2016 at 9:00 AM
The Navy's newest communications satellite, successfully launched into space late last month, experienced an "anomaly" during the transfer to its planned orbit location, forcing the service to halt the maneuver indefinitely, according to Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command. In a July 8 release, SPAWAR announced that the fifth Mobile User Objective System (MUOS-5) satellite was slated to reach its geosynchronous orbit -- the point at which it would orbit at the same speed of the planet -- above its...

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