{"id":13017,"date":"2019-08-07T17:20:02","date_gmt":"2019-08-07T09:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/photos-aehf-5-satellite-encapsulated-for-launch\/"},"modified":"2019-08-07T17:20:02","modified_gmt":"2019-08-07T09:20:02","slug":"photos-aehf-5-satellite-encapsulated-for-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/photos-aehf-5-satellite-encapsulated-for-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: AEHF 5 satellite encapsulated for launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Air Force\u2019s fifth Advanced Extremely High Frequency satellite, designed for secure, jam-resistant communications, is set for launch aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket. These photos show the AEHF 5 satellite during encapsulation inside the Atlas 5\u2019s payload shroud.<\/p>\n<p>The AEHF 5 satellite, built by Lockheed Martin, will join four other satellites in the Air Force\u2019s protecting communications network providing secure data, voice and video links to the military and government leaders.<\/p>\n<p>The spacecraft weighs around 13,600 pounds (6,168 kilograms) fully fueled. The Atlas 5 rocket set to launch with the AEHF 5 satellite will fly in the \u201c551\u201d configuration \u2014 the most powerful Atlas 5 variant \u2014 with a 5.4 meter (17.7-foot) diameter payload fairing produced by Ruag Space and five solid rocket boosters from Aerojet Rocketdyne.<\/p>\n<p>See our Mission Status Center for coverage of the countdown and launch.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_39491\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39491\" style=\"width: 678px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-39491\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/48063088516_e3376f1d21_b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"975\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/48063088516_e3376f1d21_b.jpg 678w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/48063088516_e3376f1d21_b-209x300.jpg 209w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-39491\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The AEHF 5 communications satellite was encapsulated inside the Atlas 5 rocket\u2019s payload fairing in early June at the Astrotech payload processing facility in Titusville, Florida. Credit: Lockheed Martin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_40116\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40116\" style=\"width: 678px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-40116 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/48408899127_9acbd634be_b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"1017\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/48408899127_9acbd634be_b.jpg 678w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/48408899127_9acbd634be_b-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-40116\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The AEHF 5 communications satellite was encapsulated inside the Atlas 5 rocket\u2019s payload fairing in early June at the Astrotech payload processing facility in Titusville, Florida. Credit: Lockheed Martin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_40117\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40117\" style=\"width: 678px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-40117\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/48408748701_a0a42b3bf8_b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"1017\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/48408748701_a0a42b3bf8_b.jpg 678w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/48408748701_a0a42b3bf8_b-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-40117\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The AEHF 5 communications satellite was encapsulated inside the Atlas 5 rocket\u2019s payload fairing in early June at the Astrotech payload processing facility in Titusville, Florida. Credit: Lockheed Martin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_40118\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40118\" style=\"width: 678px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-40118\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/48408748581_eb48c987e4_b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"1017\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/48408748581_eb48c987e4_b.jpg 678w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/48408748581_eb48c987e4_b-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-40118\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The AEHF 5 communications satellite was encapsulated inside the Atlas 5 rocket\u2019s payload fairing in early June at the Astrotech payload processing facility in Titusville, Florida. Credit: Lockheed Martin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_40119\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40119\" style=\"width: 678px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-40119\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/48408898672_b9fb1bd3a1_b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"1017\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/48408898672_b9fb1bd3a1_b.jpg 678w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/48408898672_b9fb1bd3a1_b-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-40119\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The AEHF 5 communications satellite was encapsulated inside the Atlas 5 rocket\u2019s payload fairing in early June at the Astrotech payload processing facility in Titusville, Florida. Credit: Lockheed Martin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_40120\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40120\" style=\"width: 678px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-40120\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/48408898522_e38c808602_b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"1017\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/48408898522_e38c808602_b.jpg 678w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/48408898522_e38c808602_b-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-40120\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The AEHF 5 communications satellite was encapsulated inside the Atlas 5 rocket\u2019s payload fairing in early June at the Astrotech payload processing facility in Titusville, Florida. Credit: Lockheed Martin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><b><i>Email the author.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Follow Stephen Clark on Twitter: @StephenClark1.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Air Force\u2019s fifth Advanced Extremely High Frequency satellite, designed for secure, jam-resistant communications, is set for launch aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket. These photos show the AEHF 5 satellite during encapsulation inside the Atlas 5\u2019s payload shroud. The AEHF 5 satellite, built by Lockheed Martin, will join four other satellites [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2301,2302,2537,724,2538,1695,1392,1708],"class_list":["post-13017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-a2100","tag-aehf","tag-aehf-5","tag-atlas-5","tag-av-083","tag-cape-canaveral","tag-centaur","tag-complex-41"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13017"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}