US Air Force Blames Power Failure for Loss of DMSP-F19 Weather Satellite

Monday, August 1, 2016 - 18:01 in Astronomy & Space

A power failure affecting an encrypted command-and-control system on board the U.S. Air Force's Defense Meteorological Satellite Program Flight-19 spacecraft is to blame for the loss of the two-year-old weather satellite, the Air Force announced July 25.

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