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Northrop Delivers Payload Module For AEHF Military Comms Bird

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Monday, March 2nd, 2009

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Northrop Grumman Corp. [NOC] delivered the payload module for the third Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) military communications satellite, the company announced today. That Friday arrival makes three consecutive early deliveries, Northrop stated. The third communications payload module arrived 22 days ahead of schedule at the Sunnyvale, Calif., facilities of Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT], the AEHF prime contractor. Lockheed now will begin mating the payload module with its A2100 satellite bus and other space vehicle components, followed by environmental and…

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