{"id":87037,"date":"2010-04-30T20:40:41","date_gmt":"2010-04-30T12:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/u-s-air-force-gives-aehf-3-launch-to-ula\/"},"modified":"2010-04-30T20:40:41","modified_gmt":"2010-04-30T12:40:41","slug":"u-s-air-force-gives-aehf-3-launch-to-ula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/u-s-air-force-gives-aehf-3-launch-to-ula\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Air Force Gives AEHF-3 Launch to ULA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica\">[04-30-10] The <strong>U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Cente<\/strong><strong>r<\/strong> has awarded a contract modification to <strong>United Launch Alliance<\/strong> (ULA) to launch the Advanced Extremely High Frequency-3 (AEHF-3) satellite aboard an Atlas 5 launch vehicle, the ULA announced April 29.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica\">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;The launch will take place no later than summer 2012 from Space Launch Complex-41 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. The rocket will use three Aerojet solid rocket motors, a Pratt &amp; Whitney Rocketdyne RL10A upper stage engine, a five-meter diameter upper stage and composite payload fairing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica\">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;The AEHF-3 mission will be the third instalment for the AEHF system, which aims to provide greater capacity and channel data rates than that of the existing Milstar 2 communications satellites, supporting real-time video, battlefield maps and targeting data.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Related Stories-<\/h2>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica\">\n<b class=\"titlelink\" style=\"font-size: 12px; \">Lockheed Martin Completes First AEHF Satellite<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Satellite Today&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;April 15, 2010<br \/>\n[04-15-10] Lockheed Martin has completed all factory testing of the first satellite in the U.S. Air Force s Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) program and is ready to deliver the spacecraft to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station\u2026<\/p>\n<p><b class=\"titlelink\" style=\"font-size: 12px; \">Governments Seek New Ways To Meet Communications Needs<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Via Satellite&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;April 1, 2010<br \/>\nThe cancellation of the TSAT (Transformational Satellite Communications System) military satellite program ushered in a new era for military satellite communications. 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William Harding, vice commander, Military Satellite Communications System Wing, Space and Missile Systems Center, Los Angeles Air Force Base, directs acquisition planning, programming, budgeting and operational\u2026<br type=\"_moz\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[04-30-10] The U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center has awarded a contract modification to United Launch Alliance (ULA) to launch the Advanced Extremely High Frequency-3 (AEHF-3) satellite aboard an Atlas 5 launch vehicle, the ULA announced April 29. &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;The launch will take place no later than summer 2012 from Space Launch Complex-41 [&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-87037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87037"}],"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=87037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}