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Launch Date
6/9/2001
Launch Site
CSG ELA2
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Launch Vehicle
Ariane 44L 44L-3 (Ariane 4 Family)
MEV-1 will rendezvous in geostationary orbit with Intelsat 901, an 18-year-old satellite in an inclined geosynchronous orbit.
MEV-1 will move Intelsat 901 into a new operational location in geostationary orbit over the Atlantic Ocean and remain attached for five years.
A year earlier, Northrop Grumman’s MEV-1 lifted Intelsat’s defunct IS-901 satellite out of a geostationary graveyard orbit and returned it to service.
At the end of the current servicing period, MEV-1 will release Intelsat 901 into the GEO graveyard and then provide service for another Intelsat satellite.
Intelsat, now part of SES, was the customer on the first-ever life extension mission in GEO with Northrop Grumman’s Mission Extension Vehicle (MEV), which docked with IS-901 in 2020.
At the end of the current servicing period, MEV-1 will relocate and release the Intelsat 901 satellite into the GEO graveyard and provide service for another Intelsat satellite.
MEV-1, the predecessor to MEV-2, attached to Intelsat’s IS-901 and lifted that satellite out of geostationary graveyard orbit to return it to service on 2020-04-02.