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ULA Completes 50th Launch For U.S. Air Force With AEHF Mission

ULA Completes 50th Launch For U.S. Air Force With AEHF Mission
Integration of the payload module for the fourth Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) protected communications satellite. Photo: Northrop Grumman, by Alex Evers

United Launch Alliance (ULA) successfully carried the fourth Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) mission into orbit for the U.S. Air Force on an Atlas V rocket that took off early Wednesday morning from Cape Canaveral. This rocket used was an Atlas V Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) 551 configuration vehicle standing at 197 feet tall, and equipped with a 5-meter large payload fairing.AEHF-4 marks ULA’s 50th launch for the U.S. Air Force dating back to the Space Test Program-1 (STP-1)…

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