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Air Force Deems DMSP Flight 19 Unrepairable, Unrecoverable

Pat Host

Monday, July 25th, 2016

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Air Force Deems DMSP Flight 19 Unrepairable, Unrecoverable

Lockheed Martin employees work on DMSP-19 during final integration at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. Photo: Lockheed Martin.

The Air Force on Monday said a weather satellite that stopped responding to commands in February is not repairable and that it wouldn’t take further action toward recovery.The Air Force anomaly team determined there was a power failure with in the command and control (C2) system of Defense Meteorological Satellite Program Flight 19 (DMSP-19) affecting onboard cryptographic equipment. Due to this failure, the service said commands are unable to reach the command processor.Both the “A” side and “B” side of…

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