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Navy/USMC

Navy’s MUOS-5 Satellite Suffers Glitch In Space

By Marc Selinger

Monday, July 11th, 2016

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Navy’s MUOS-5 Satellite Suffers Glitch In Space

Artist's rendering of a Navy Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) satellite. (Image: Lockheed Martin)

The Navy’s fifth Mobile User Objective System (MUOS-5) communications satellite, launched in late June, experienced an “anomaly” while being moved in space, the Navy announced July 8.MUOS-5 lifted off aboard a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas 5 rocket on June 24 and was projected to enter its test location 22,000 miles above Hawaii by July 3, according to Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR). But the anomaly, whose nature was not disclosed, forced the transfer maneuver to be halted…

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