The Military's New Communications Satellite Has Malfunctioned

In late June, the military launched communications satellite MUOS-5 with the goal of creating a secure communications grid over Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. MUOS-5 will work with the four other MUOS satellites that have already been launched. At least, it would if it made it to the correct orbit. Unfortunately, it seems something has malfunctioned on the satellite, and it's no longer able to reach the orbital height it was supposed to. Currently, the satellite is stuck in a lower, intermediate, highly elliptical orbit. More

(Source: Popular Mechanics - Aug 4)