{"id":15668,"date":"2016-03-09T22:01:51","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T14:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/muos-5-satellite-comes-to-florida-on-way-to-geosynchronous-orbit\/"},"modified":"2016-03-09T22:01:51","modified_gmt":"2016-03-09T14:01:51","slug":"muos-5-satellite-comes-to-florida-on-way-to-geosynchronous-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/muos-5-satellite-comes-to-florida-on-way-to-geosynchronous-orbit\/","title":{"rendered":"MUOS 5 satellite comes to Florida on way to geosynchronous orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"
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MUOS No. 5 in the factory before shipment to Cape Canaveral for launch. Credit: Lockheed Martin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

CAPE CANAVERAL \u2014 The fifth and final satellite for the U.S. Navy\u2019s new mobile network to provide rugged smartphone communications to all branches of the military has arrived at the launch site for blastoff in May.<\/p>\n

The Mobile User Objective System satellite No. 5, built to be an on-orbit spare, was flown aboard a C-5 Galaxy aircraft March 3 from its Lockheed Martin factory in Sunnyvale, California to Cape Canaveral, Florida.<\/p>\n

Liftoff is targeted for May 5 atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket flying in its mightiest 551 configuration with five strap-on solid-fuel boosters.<\/p>\n

The launch will be occur some time during an unclassified period that runs from 11:46 a.m. to 3:46 p.m. EDT.<\/p>\n

The mission will complete the MUOS launch series that began in 2012 to form a global communications infrastructure in geosynchronous orbit 22,300 miles up. All the satellites have used the Atlas 5 to get into space.<\/p>\n

MUOS 1<\/strong> \u2014 Launched Feb. 24, 2012 (Coverage: Pacific Ocean region)
\nMUOS 2<\/strong> \u2014 Launched July 19, 2013 (Coverage: Continental U.S.)
\nMUOS 3<\/strong> \u2014 Launched Jan. 20, 2015 (Coverage: Atlantic Ocean region)
\nMUOS 4<\/strong> \u2014 Launched Sept. 2, 2015 (Coverage: Indian Ocean region)<\/p>\n

MUOS 5<\/strong> \u2014 Planned for May 5 (Coverage: Indian Ocean region)<\/p>\n

\u201cAs MUOS-5\u2019s launch approaches, MUOS-4 is preparing to begin operations on-station, enabling MUOS\u2019 near-global coverage,\u201d said Mark Woempner, program director of Lockheed Martin\u2019s Narrowband Communications mission area.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are proud that we will soon be providing our mobile forces access to the system\u2019s enhanced communications capabilities from nearly anywhere, including further into polar regions than ever before.\u201d<\/p>\n

MUOS is the nation\u2019s next-generation narrowband tactical satellite communications system, providing 3G cellphone features to warfighters on the move.<\/p>\n

\"MUOS
MUOS No. 5 solar array wing assembly. Credit: Lockheed Martin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cMobile forces, equipped with MUOS terminals, will soon be able to communicate with each other \u2013 including voice, data and exchanging imagery \u2013 real-time, virtually anywhere on the Earth,\u201d said Iris Bombelyn, Lockheed Martin\u2019s vice president for Narrowband Communications. \u201cThis is a tremendous upgrade in communications capabilities over what currently exists for our nation and our allies.\u201d<\/p>\n

MUOS No. 5 was taken to the commercial Astrotech processing facility in Titusville to be unpacked from its shipping container. It will undergo final testing, the loading of maneuvering fuel and encapsulation in the rocket\u2019s 18-foot-diameter composite nose cone.<\/p>\n

The Atlas 5 first stage and Centaur upper stage will be brought together starting in mid-April at the Vertical Integration Facility at Cape Canaveral\u2019s Complex 41. The satellite will be mounted on top to finish assembling the 206-foot-tall rocket at the end of April.<\/p>\n

Atlas rockets have conducted 23 launches with communications satellites for the Navy since 1978. <\/p>\n

Our Atlas archive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MUOS No. 5 in the factory before shipment to Cape Canaveral for launch. Credit: Lockheed Martin CAPE CANAVERAL \u2014 The fifth and final satellite for the U.S. Navy\u2019s new mobile network to provide rugged smartphone communications to all branches of the military has arrived at the launch site for blastoff in May. The Mobile User […]<\/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":[724,3535,472,3536,3537,3538,3539,750],"class_list":["post-15668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-atlas-5","tag-av-063","tag-lockheed-martin","tag-mobile-user-objective-system","tag-muos","tag-muos-5","tag-navy","tag-united-launch-alliance"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15668"}],"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=15668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}