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MUOS-3’s safe transport to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station began from Lockheed Martin’s Sunnyvale, California, facility to nearby Moffett Federal Airfield. Courtesy of Lockheed Martin

Sunnyvale, Calif., USA - November 06, 2014

• MUOS-3 shipped to Cape Canaveral in advance of January launch

The U.S. Navy and Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] have delivered the third Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) spacecraft to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, where it will be prepared for a January 2015 liftoff aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket.

MUOS-3
Lockheed Martin’s Sunnyvale, California, facility.
Courtesy of Lockheed Martin

MUOS operates like a smart phone cell tower in the sky, vastly improving current secure mobile satellite communications for warfighters on the move.

For the first time, MUOS Wideband Code Division Multiple Access technology users will have beyond-line-of-sight capability to transmit and receive voice and data using an Internet Protocol-based system.

Mobile User Objective System (MUOS)
Courtesy of Lockheed Martin

“The delivery of MUOS-3 is an important step toward enabling our warfighters to be able to pick up the phone to seamlessly call or transfer data anywhere around the world,” said Iris Bombelyn, vice president of Narrowband Communications at Lockheed Martin.
“With the launch of the third satellite in the constellation, to be followed later in 2015 by the fourth, MUOS will be in place to provide pole-to-pole and global, secure communications for the warfighter.”

Mate of propulsion core to bus of the first MUOS satellite.
Courtesy of Lockheed Martin

MUOS-3’s safe transport to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station began from Lockheed Martin’s Sunnyvale, California, facility to nearby Moffett Federal Airfield.

There, the 60th Air Mobility Wing of Travis Air Force Base loaded the satellite aboard a C-5 aircraft for final shipment on Nov. 5.

Mobile User Objective System (MUOS)
Courtesy of Lockheed Martin

Prior to launch, Lockheed Martin engineers and technicians at the Cape will complete post shipment testing.

Lockheed Martin will fuel the satellite’s propulsion system and the spacecraft will be encapsulated inside the launch vehicle’s payload fairing.

MUOS Completes Assembly.
Workers continue integration and test activities on two Mobile User Objective System satellites at the Lockheed Martin Space Systems facility in Sunnyvale, Calif., USA.
The fifth MUOS satellite (right) had just completed the mate of the multi-beam assembly of antennas to its core.
Courtesy of Lockheed Martin

The encapsulated spacecraft will then be integrated on top of an Atlas V launch vehicle for final integrated testing and closeout preparations for launch.

MUOS-2 was launched and handed over to the Navy for operations in 2013. MUOS-1 was launched and became operational in 2012.

MUOS Satellite Encapsulated In Launch Vehicle Payload Fairing.
Courtesy of Lockheed Martin

These two on-orbit MUOS satellites already are demonstrating new capabilities, especially in the Arctic, an area previously beyond the coverage of UHF satellites and growing in interest for transportation and natural resources exploration above 65 degrees north latitude.

On January 29 Lockheed Martin encapsulated the first MUOS satellite into its launch vehicle payload fairing in preparation for its February 16 launch aboard an Atlas V rocket.
Courtesy of Lockheed Martin

In the past year MUOS successfully connected users near the Arctic poles during independent testing by Lockheed Martin - and their industry partners General Dynamics, Rockwell Collins and Harris - as well as during the U.S. Navy’s 2014 Ice Exercise (ICEX) and the U.S. Coast Guard’s Arctic Shield 2014.


Courtesy of Lockheed Martin

Lockheed Martin Space Systems

Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Sunnyvale, California, is the MUOS prime contractor and system integrator.

Courtesy of Lockheed Martin

The Navy's Program Executive Office for Space Systems and its Communications Satellite Program Office, San Diego, California, are responsible for the MUOS program.

Lockheed Martin

Headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, Lockheed Martin is a global security and aerospace company that employs approximately 113,000 people worldwide and is principally engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture, integration and sustainment of advanced technology systems, products and services.

The Corporation’s net sales for 2013 were $45.4 billion.

Media Contact:

Chip Eschenfelder
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chip.eschenfelder@lmco.com

Source: Lockheed Martin

http://www.lockheedmartin.com/

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