{"id":121459,"date":"2021-04-12T13:22:30","date_gmt":"2021-04-12T20:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/northrop-grumman-robotic-mev-2-spacecraft-in-a-first-catches-active-intelsat-satellite"},"modified":"2021-04-12T13:22:30","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T20:22:30","slug":"northrop-grumman-robotic-mev-2-spacecraft-in-a-first-catches-active-intelsat-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/northrop-grumman-robotic-mev-2-spacecraft-in-a-first-catches-active-intelsat-satellite","title":{"rendered":"Northrop Grumman robotic MEV-2 spacecraft, in a first, catches active Intelsat satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/northrop-grumman-robotic-mev-2-spacecraft-in-a-first-catches-active-intelsat-satellite2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two aerospace firms accomplished an industry first on Monday, as a small Northrop Grumman spacecraft docked successfully with an active Intelsat satellite to provide service and extend its life.<\/p>\n<p>Intelsat\u2019s IS-10\u201302 satellite is nearly 18 years old, and operating well past its expected lifespan, but the Northrop Grumman-built spacecraft called MEV-2 will add another five years of life to IS-10\u201302, essentially re-fueling the satellite and giving it a new engine for control.<\/p>\n<p>The companies hit a milestone in the growing business of servicing satellites while in space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two aerospace firms accomplished an industry first on Monday, as a small Northrop Grumman spacecraft docked successfully with an active Intelsat satellite to provide service and extend its life. Intelsat\u2019s IS-10\u201302 satellite is nearly 18 years old, and operating well past its expected lifespan, but the Northrop Grumman-built spacecraft called MEV-2 will add another five [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,6,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-robotics-ai","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}