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Space

Lockheed Martin’s AEHF Military Comms Satellite Enters Final Testing

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Monday, September 14th, 2009

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The first Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) military communications satellite built by Lockheed Martin [LMT] for the Air Force has entered final testing at facilities in Sunnyvale, Calif., the company said Thursday. AEHF will provide global, highly secure, protected, survivable communications for all warfighters serving under the U.S. Department of Defense. The AEHF system is the successor to the five-satellite Milstar constellation which has accumulated over 50 years of combined on-orbit operations. With the successful completion of all spacecraft environmental…

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