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The Mission Extension Vehicle (MEV) is a spacecraft that extends the functional lifetime of another spacecraft through on-orbit satellite servicing. They are 2010s-design small-scale in-space satellite-refueling spacecraft first launched in 2019. The MEV spacecraft grew out of a concept proposed in 2011 by ViviSat, a 50/50 joint venture of aerospace firms US Space and Alliant Techsystems (ATK). The joint venture was created in 2010 for the purpose of designing, producing and operating the MEV program.
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Launch
- Launch date
- January 18, 2019 at 12:50 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Uchinoura, Japan
- Launched by
- Epsilon →
- Operator
- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
- Mission
- RAPIS-1 & others
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 142 km
- Periapsis
- 129 km
- Inclination
- 97.04°
- Orbital period
- 87.2 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Vietnam National Space Center
- Manufacturer
- Built by Vietnamese engineers studying in Japan.
- Users
- Government
- Launch mass
- 50 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2019-003D
- NORAD catalog №
- 43935
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Vietnam
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- October 1, 2024
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- October 1, 2024
- Time in service
- 5.7 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed