Mission Extension Vehicles succeed as Northrop Grumman works on future servicing/debris clean-up craft

Source: NASA Spaceflight
Date Published: 05/07/2021

With the successful docking of Mission Extension Vehicle 2, or MEV-2, to the Intelsat 10-02 satellite last month, Northrop Grumman not only repeated the task of successfully attaching one of their MEV spacecraft to a functioning satellite but also successfully proved the ability to grab a still-transmitting telecommunications satellite without disrupting service.