{"id":82649,"date":"2012-08-14T20:48:50","date_gmt":"2012-08-14T12:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/aehf-satellite-reaches-testing-phase-orbit\/"},"modified":"2012-08-14T20:48:50","modified_gmt":"2012-08-14T12:48:50","slug":"aehf-satellite-reaches-testing-phase-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/aehf-satellite-reaches-testing-phase-orbit\/","title":{"rendered":"AEHF Satellite Reaches Testing Phase Orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[08-14-12] The <b>U.S. Air Force<\/b>\u2019s Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) satellite has successfully arrived at its geostationary-orbit test location following its May 4 launch, the Air Force confirmed Aug. 13.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp;The satellite\u2019s solar arrays were deployed in preparation for the Hall Current Thruster (HCT) phase of orbit transfer. During the HCT phase, the U.S. Air Force executed 47 burns during a period of 85 days to raise the perigee and reduce the apogee of AEHF-2\u2019s orbit. Air Force officials said the next phase involves payload activation, which will include deploying the payload\u2019s wings and antennas and turning on the payload electronics. Once complete, the system will begin an on-orbit test phase that will last approximately two months.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;AEHF is a joint service satellite communications system that aims to provide survivable, global, secure, protected and jam-resistant communications for high-priority U.S. military ground, sea and air assets. The AEHF system is the follow-on to the U.S. Department of Defense\u2019s Milstar system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[08-14-12] The U.S. Air Force\u2019s Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) satellite has successfully arrived at its geostationary-orbit test location following its May 4 launch, the Air Force confirmed Aug. 13. &nbsp; &nbsp;The satellite\u2019s solar arrays were deployed in preparation for the Hall Current Thruster (HCT) phase of orbit transfer. During the HCT phase, the U.S. [&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":[],"class_list":["post-82649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82649"}],"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=82649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}