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Navy’s MUOS Successfully Launches, Delivers Signal

Gally Articola

Wednesday, July 24th, 2013

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The Navy successfully launched its second Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) communications satellite Friday morning 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 by leveraging 3G…

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