Tag: DMSP F19

  • Air Force ends effort to recover DMSP weather satellite

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    Artist’s concept of a DMSP weather satellite in orbit. Credit: U.S. Air Force Attempts to restore the U.S. Air Force’s newest weather satellite to service have ended, a military spokesperson said Wednesday, cutting a planned five-year mission short less than two years after it launched. The Defense Meteorological Satellite Program Flight 19, or DMSP F19, spacecraft…

  • Engineers lose control of U.S. military weather satellite

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    Artist’s concept of a DMSP weather satellite in orbit. Credit: Lockheed Martin The U.S. Air Force has been unable to send commands to the service’s newest weather satellite for nearly a month, and engineers are trying to determine if the spacecraft can be salvaged, officials said last week. The polar-orbiting Defense Meteorological Satellite Program Flight…