Air Force ends effort to recover DMSP weather satellite

Attempts to restore the U.S. Air Force’s newest weather satellite to service have ended, a military spokesperson said Wednesday, cutting a planned five-year mission short less than two years after it launched. The Defense Meteorological Satellite Program Flight 19, or DMSP F19, spacecraft stopped responding to commands from mission control Feb. 11, and engineers have concluded that a power anomaly inside the satellite is responsible for the weather observatory’s failure. Ground controllers have ceased all recovery efforts with the DMSP F19 satellite, according to Jennifer Thibault, a spokesperson for the Air Force’s 50th Space Wing at Schriever Air Force Base, Colorado. More

(Source: SpaceFlight Now - Mar 31)