{"id":73347,"date":"2015-09-02T20:09:02","date_gmt":"2015-09-02T12:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/ula-atlas-5-lofts-muos-4-satellite-makes-system-global\/"},"modified":"2015-09-02T20:09:02","modified_gmt":"2015-09-02T12:09:02","slug":"ula-atlas-5-lofts-muos-4-satellite-makes-system-global","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/ula-atlas-5-lofts-muos-4-satellite-makes-system-global\/","title":{"rendered":"ULA Atlas 5 Lofts MUOS 4 Satellite, Makes System Global"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 09-02-2015] <b>United Launch Alliance<\/b> (ULA) launched the <b>U.S. Navy<\/b>\u2019s fourth Mobile User Objective System (MUOS 4) satellite on Sept. 2 aboard an Atlas 5 rocket. The fourth satellite globalizes the MUOS footprint, bringing both legacy Ultra-High Frequency (UHF) and new Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) communications capabilities. The narrowband tactical satellite communications system provides new Beyond-Line-of-Sight (BLOS) communications capabilities, with smart phone-like simultaneous voice, video and data.<\/p>\n<p>ULA launched the MUOS 4 satellite aboard an Atlas 5 Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) 551 configuration vehicle, which includes a 5-meter diameter payload fairing along with five <b>Aerojet Rocketdyne <\/b>solid rocket motors attached to the Atlas booster. The rocket used the Russian-built RD-180 engine from <b>RD Amross <\/b>for the first stage, and the Aerojet Rocketdyne RL10C-1 engine for the Centaur upper stage. This is ULA\u2019s eighth launch of 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 09-02-2015] United Launch Alliance (ULA) launched the U.S. Navy\u2019s fourth Mobile User Objective System (MUOS 4) satellite on Sept. 2 aboard an Atlas 5 rocket. The fourth satellite globalizes the MUOS footprint, bringing both legacy Ultra-High Frequency (UHF) and new Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) communications capabilities. The narrowband tactical satellite communications [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73350,"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":[],"class_list":["post-73347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73347"}],"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=73347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}