Main Engine Cut Off

The Joint Functional Component Command for Space officially tasked the 1st Space Operations Squadron to support Navy’s ongoing Mobile User Objective System-5 anomaly effort after the satellite failed to reach its target geosynchronous orbit on July 3.

Anomaly resolution in space is challenging for many reasons, one being it’s difficult to see what’s going on with the satellite.  Traditionally, engineers, analysts and operators comb through telemetry to come up with possible reasons for the anomaly, however in cases like this GSSAP is able to provide Electro Optical Space Situational Awareness on the status of space objects to include location, orbit and size of the space object.