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Air Force Delays Launching AEHF, SBIRS Satellites

By Marc Selinger

Friday, August 11th, 2017

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Air Force Delays Launching AEHF, SBIRS Satellites

An artist's illustration of an Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) communications satellite. Image: Air Force.

The Air Force is pushing back the launches of two Lockheed Martin [LMT]-built satellites that were supposed to lift off this fall.Each spacecraft – the fourth Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF-4) protected-communications satellite and the fourth Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) geosynchronous Earth orbit (GEO Flight-4) missile-warning satellite – is slated to ride on a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. ULA is a joint venture of Boeing [BA] and Lockheed Martin.The…

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