Intelsat had transitioned customers off of Intelsat-901 in November, and began moving the satellite out of the geosynchronous arc Dec. 2 to meet with MEV-1 in a graveyard orbit a few hundred ...

MCLEAN& DULLES, Va.---- Intelsat today announced that Intelsat 901 has returned to service following the successful docking with the first Mission Extension Vehicle from Northrop Grumman ...

Five years of additional service have been added to the Intelsat 901 satellite by a Mission Extension Vehicle (MEV). The world’s first MEV, developed by Northrop Grumman Corporation’s Space ...

Intelsat 901’s new lease on life is all thanks to Northrop Grumman’s MEV-1 spacecraft. MEV-1 is the first mission of its kind to demonstrate what is known as satellite servicing — using one ...

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The Intelsat 901 satellite has returned to service following its historic life-extension docking with Northrop Grumman's MEV-1 in February.

Northrop Grumman’s Mission Extension Vehicle-1 (MEV-1) docked successfully with Intelsat’s-901 communications satellite in orbit on Tuesday, the first time two commercial satellites have ever ...

Northrop Grumman announced Friday that its Mission Extension Vehicle-1, or MEV-1, has restored the Intelsat 901 satellite and relocated it into a position to resume operations.

Mission Extension Vehicle 1 (MEV-1) safely departs from Intelsat 901 (IS-901) in the Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (GEO) after providing five years of life extension service. The earth is visible in ...

Northrop Grumman's Mission Extension Vehicle 1 (MEV-1) captured this view of its target, the Intelsat 901 communications satellite, from a distance of 20 meters during docking operations on Feb ...

The Intelsat 901 has returned to service less than two months after is historic docking with Northrop Grumman's first Mission Extension Vehicle. Now in a new orbit, the 19-year-old communications ...

The Intelsat 901 satellite has returned to service following its historic life-extension docking with Northrop Grumman's MEV-1 in February.