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Navy’s MUOS Successfully Launches, Delivers Signal

Gally Articola

Monday, July 29th, 2013

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The Navy successfully launched its second Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) communications satellite on the morning of July 19 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., aboard one of United Launch Alliance’s (ULA) Atlas V heavy lift launch vehicles, according to a company statement. MUOS is a next-generation narrowband tactical satellite communications system designed to significantly improve beyond line-of-sight communications for United States forces on the move. MUOS will provide military users 10 times more communications capacity over the existing system…

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