Tag: MUOS
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Preps begin for summer’s third planned military space launch
MUOS 4. Credit: Lockheed Martin CAPE CANAVERAL — Tucked inside a shipping crate aboard an Air Force C-5 transport aircraft, the Navy’s next mobile communications satellite has flown from California to Florida in preparation for liftoff this summer. The Mobile User Objective System satellite No. 4, built by Lockheed Martin in Sunnyvale, Calif., was shipped…
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New Navy satellite spreads wings, unfurls antennas in orbit
CAPE CANAVERAL — The massive U.S. Navy communications satellite launched from Cape Canaveral two weeks ago has completed prescribed maneuvers to reach geosynchronous orbit and successfully unfurled its umbrella-like antenna reflectors. Checkouts of the spacecraft — expected to last several months — are getting underway high above the Pacific Ocean testing location before the bird…
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Three Atlas 5, Delta 4 assigned to military launches
CAPE CANAVERAL — Three rockets under the existing Block Buy between the Pentagon and United Launch Alliance have been assigned configurations and payloads. The $382.9 million, fixed-price contract awarded last week covers a Delta 4 rocket and two Atlas 5 vehicles that will launch in the next two years. “We are enormously honored to be…
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ULA Atlas V successfully launches third MUOS spacecraft
United Launch Alliance conducted its first launch of 2015 on Tuesday, with an Atlas V carrying the third Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) satellite to orbit. Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 41 of the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station occurred at 20:04 local time (01:04 UTC on Wednesday), midway through a forty-four minute window. Atlas…