A first: Repair spacecraft brings aging satellite back to life TechSpot

Northrop Grumman’s recent mission introduced a lot of firsts: the MEV-1 is the first spacecraft designed with repair functionality in mind, its docking to the IS-901 was the first between commercial equipment in geostationary orbit, and the IS-901 (as photographed by MEV-1 above) is the first satellite to have its...





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