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MEV-1 service spacecraft makes history with first satellite undocking
19 Apr 2025 16:32 GMT
… service and shunted into a graveyard orbit was that it had run … coms satellite back into a graveyard orbit where it won't …
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2 private satellites undock after pioneering life-extension mission
18 Apr 2025 17:12 GMT
… satellite in 2020 in a graveyard orbit, a few hundred miles above …
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What caught your eye? (Tree gum, GEO graveyards, Optical sensor, AI servers)
17 Apr 2025 11:43 GMT
… now back in its ‘GEO graveyard’ orbit.
But what caught your eye …
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Northrop Grumman, Intelsat complete historic satellite life-extension mission
15 Apr 2025 05:37 GMT
… moving the satellite to the graveyard orbit, where the satellite will be … moving at 3km per second.”
Graveyard orbit
Geostationary satellites use propellant to … in 2020 in the GEO graveyard orbit.
Now, with the life-extension …
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Bullets in orbit: Can we fix space junk?
14 Apr 2025 18:58 GMT
… up), or moving them into ‘graveyard orbits’ where there isn’t much …
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Garbage on the Final Frontier
12 Apr 2025 13:25 GMT
… are moved into so-called graveyard orbits after their operational life ends …
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Intelsat completes satellite life-extension mission
11 Apr 2025 18:58 GMT
… moving the satellite to the graveyard orbit, where the satellite will be … eventually be moved to a graveyard orbit. The MEV has its own …
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Northrop Grumman achieves 1st undocking between 2 commercial spacecraft in GEO
11 Apr 2025 03:11 GMT
… was possible in the GEO graveyard orbit and brought IS-901 back … with IS-901 in the graveyard orbit before reducing the satellite’s … technology was successfully proven in graveyard orbit with MEV-1, MEV-2 …
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Intelsat mission extends life of IS-901
10 Apr 2025 19:32 GMT
… moving the satellite to the graveyard orbit, where the satellite will be … eventually be moved to a graveyard orbit. The MEV has its own …
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Intelsat Completes Satellite Life-Extension Mission, Makes Space History
09 Apr 2025 16:28 GMT
… moving the satellite to the graveyard orbit, where the satellite will be … eventually be moved to a graveyard orbit. The MEV has its own …