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Air Force Studying Alternatives To Troubled ORS-6 Satellite

By Marc Selinger

Friday, June 1st, 2018

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Air Force Studying Alternatives To Troubled ORS-6 Satellite

Orbital's Minotaur IV launches from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Aug. 26, 2017, carrying the ORS-5 space-tracing satellite. Photo: Orbital ATK.

The U.S. Air Force has scrubbed the launch of a weather demonstration satellite, citing unspecified “technical issues” with the spacecraft’s bus.The Air Force’s Space Rapid Capabilities Office (Space RCO), formerly the Operationally Responsive Space (ORS) office, had planned to launch the ORS-6 satellite on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in February. The mission would have space-qualified a new “modular” satellite bus. In a written response to questions, the Space RCO said late May 31 that it is now looking at “alternate approaches”…

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