Northrop Grumman’s MEV-2 Servicer Docks With Intelsat Satellite Written 13 April 2021
Northrop Grumman’s Mission Extension Vehicle, or MEV. | Credit: Northrop Grumman; NASA
Space News reports that at 1:34 p.m EDT Monday, Northrop Grumman’s MEV-2 satellite servicer docked “with Intelsat’s in-orbit 10-02 spacecraft.” The docking marked “the first time a satellite servicer has docked with an in-service commercial satellite in geosynchronous orbit (GEO).” The two spacecraft “will stay locked together for five years to extend the life of IS-10-02, which was running low on fuel after being in orbit since 2004.”
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