{"id":85389,"date":"2011-02-11T01:56:27","date_gmt":"2011-02-10T17:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/lockheed-wins-339-6-million-muos-satellite-deal\/"},"modified":"2011-02-11T01:56:27","modified_gmt":"2011-02-10T17:56:27","slug":"lockheed-wins-339-6-million-muos-satellite-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/lockheed-wins-339-6-million-muos-satellite-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Lockheed Wins $339.6 Million MUOS Satellite Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[02-10-11] <strong>Lockheed Martin Space Systems<\/strong> has won a $339.6 million contract from the <strong>U.S. Navy<\/strong> to build the fifth Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) ultra-high frequency communications satellite, the company announced. <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The new MUOS satellite will feature payloads designed by both <strong>Boeing<\/strong> and Lockheed Martin that aim to significantly increase throughput. Lockheed is currently undergoing a series of environmental tests on the first MUOS spacecraft, scheduled for delivery this summer. Lockheed said the satellite is almost two years behind schedule due to difficulties with integrating a payload with the spacecraft platform.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Lockheed Martin is currently building the second MUOS satellite, scheduled for delivery in 2012, and will soon integrate the communications payloads with the satellite\u2019s propulsion core.<br \/>\nMUOS will replace the Navy\u2019s aging Ultra High Frequency Follow-On (UFO) constellation and provide narrowband coverage to U.S. and Australian military forces as the result of a 2010 agreement between the two countries. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[02-10-11] Lockheed Martin Space Systems has won a $339.6 million contract from the U.S. Navy to build the fifth Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) ultra-high frequency communications satellite, the company announced. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The new MUOS satellite will feature payloads designed by both Boeing and Lockheed Martin that aim to significantly increase throughput. Lockheed is currently [&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-85389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85389"}],"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=85389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}