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MUOS-4 Navy Communications Satellite Successfully Launched

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2015

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MUOS-4 Navy Communications Satellite Successfully Launched

The U.S. Navy MUOS-4 satellite launched the morning of September 2, 2015 aboard an Atlas V rocket. Photo: U.S. Air Force.

The Air Force and Navy successfully launched the Navy’s fourth in a new constellation of satellites designed for beyond-the-line-of-sight communications, the Air Force said Wednesday.The Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) satellite was launched from Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 41 on Wednesday morning at 6:18 a.m. aboard an Atlas V rocket. MUOS-4 joins three other satellites in space that are already operational. Lockheed Martin [LMT], the satellite builder, is under contract to provide a total of five MUOS units.MUOS-4 was…

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