{"id":70543,"date":"2016-07-11T22:37:07","date_gmt":"2016-07-11T14:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/muos-5-glitch-interrupts-journey-to-geo\/"},"modified":"2016-07-11T22:37:07","modified_gmt":"2016-07-11T14:37:07","slug":"muos-5-glitch-interrupts-journey-to-geo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/muos-5-glitch-interrupts-journey-to-geo\/","title":{"rendered":"MUOS 5 Glitch Interrupts Journey to GEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 06-11-2016] The <strong>U.S. Navy <\/strong>reports that the fifth satellite in the Mobile User Objective System (MUOS), successfully launched June 24 aboard an Atlas 5 rocket, has experienced an anomaly that required its transfer maneuver to be temporarily halted.<\/p>\n<p>MUOS 5 was projected to reach geosynchronous orbit and enter its test location 22,000 miles above Hawaii by July 3. Following the anomaly, the Navy\u2019s <strong>Program Executive Office for Space Systems <\/strong>reconfigured the satellite from orbital transfer into a stabilized, safe intermediate orbit to allow the MUOS team to evaluate the situation and determine options for proceeding.<br \/>\nMUOS 5 is an on-orbit spare for immediate redundancy in the MUOS constellation. The Navy reports that the other four satellites in the constellation are performing nominally. The delay in MUOS 5 reaching its test location will have no impact upon current legacy or Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) satellite communications operations.<\/p>\n<p>The MUOS network provides \u201csmartphone-like\u201d telecommunications services with near-global coverage, and enables 16 times more communications capacity than the legacy system it will eventually replace. <strong>Lockheed Martin <\/strong>is the prime contractor for MUOS.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNothing is more important to Lockheed Martin than mission success,\u201d the company commented in a statement provided to <em>Via Satellite<\/em>. \u201cWe are working closely with our Navy customer to determine the cause of the anomaly.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 06-11-2016] The U.S. Navy reports that the fifth satellite in the Mobile User Objective System (MUOS), successfully launched June 24 aboard an Atlas 5 rocket, has experienced an anomaly that required its transfer maneuver to be temporarily halted. MUOS 5 was projected to reach geosynchronous orbit and enter its test location 22,000 miles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70544,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70543"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}