{"id":83697,"date":"2012-01-11T20:26:07","date_gmt":"2012-01-11T12:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/air-force-sets-wgs-4-launch-date\/"},"modified":"2012-01-11T20:26:07","modified_gmt":"2012-01-11T12:26:07","slug":"air-force-sets-wgs-4-launch-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/air-force-sets-wgs-4-launch-date\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Force Sets WGS-4 Launch Date"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[01-11-12] The <strong>U.S. Air Force<\/strong> scheduled the launch of its fourth Wideband Global Satcom satellite (WGS-4) for Jan. 19. The satellite will ride aboard a <strong>United Launch Alliance (ULA) <\/strong>Delta 4 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., ULA confirmed Jan. 10.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; WGS-4 is the first satellite that manufacturer <strong>Boeing<\/strong> delivered under its Air Force Block 2 contract and the second to launch on the ULA Delta 4 rocket. The WGS Block 2 contract for WGS-4 and WGS-5 was awarded to Boeing in 2006.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;Boeing WGS Government Program Manager Luke Schaub said WGS-4 would provide U.S. military warfighters with enhanced communication capabilities while extending global coverage.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;\u201cThe launch of WGS-4 is the culmination of five years of dedicated work by the combined Boeing and Government team. This satellite represents the first of a new block of WGS vehicles, enhancing the Wideband MILSATCOM capacity currently available to thousands of users around the globe and adding high-bandwidth support for a few high-priority users. We eagerly anticipate its operational availability to our warfighters this summer.&#8221;<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;The U.S. Milsatcom Systems Directorate, Space and Missile Systems Center authorized Boeing to begin production of the sixth WGS satellite in December 2008. The Australian government is funding the WGS-6 program.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[01-11-12] The U.S. Air Force scheduled the launch of its fourth Wideband Global Satcom satellite (WGS-4) for Jan. 19. The satellite will ride aboard a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta 4 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., ULA confirmed Jan. 10. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; WGS-4 is the first satellite that manufacturer Boeing delivered under its [&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-83697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83697"}],"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=83697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}