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Lockheed Martin Hands Control Of MUOS-5 Satellite To Navy

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Lockheed Martin Hands Control Of MUOS-5 Satellite To Navy
The Mobile User Objective System (MUOS)-5 satellite at Lockheed Martin’s Sunnyvale, Calif. satellite manufacturing facility before its May 2016 launch. (Photo: Lockheed Martin)

Lockheed Martin [LMT] and the U.S. Navy’s Communications Satellite program Office handed over operational control of the fifth Mobile User Objective System (MUOS-5) communications satellite to the Naval Satellite Operations Center (NAVSOC) on Oct. 11 following an earlier propulsion problem, the company said Thursday.The handover was the last obstacle and now allows for Army Forces Strategic Command (ARSTRAT) to provide the payload’s final configurations to support the legacy Navy ultra-high-frequency (UHF) satellite communications mission.MUOS-5 was launched in June 2016 as…

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