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Navy Communications Satellite Launched

Wednesday, January 28th, 2015

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The Navy’s third of a new constellation of satellites designed to allow mobile warfighters to communicate in beyond-the-line-of-sight scenarios has been successfully launched into orbit, the service said.The Mobile User Objective System, or MUOS, satellite was launched from Cape Canaveral the evening of Jan. 20 shortly after 8 p.m. aboard an Atlas V rocket, joining two others in space that are already operational. Builder Lockheed Martin [LMT] is under contract to provide five MUOS satellites.MUOS is replacing the Ultra High…

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