Atlas launches military communications satellite
Posted: Sat, Aug 14, 2010, 11:42 AM ET (1542 GMT)
An Atlas 5 rocket successfully launched the first in a new series of military communications satellites on Saturday morning. The Atlas 5 531 lifted off at 7:07 am EDT (1107 GMT) Saturday from Cape Canaveral and placed the Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) 1 satellite into a geosynchronous transfer orbit 51 minutes later. The AEHF 1 satellite, built by Lockheed Martin, will be used by the US military to provide jam-resistant communications to troops in the field. The spacecraft, the first of at least three, has more capacity than the entire existing five-satellite Milstar constellation that it is succeeding.
An Atlas 5 rocket successfully launched the first in a new series of military communications satellites on Saturday morning. The Atlas 5 531 lifted off at 7:07 am EDT (1107 GMT) Saturday from Cape Canaveral and placed the Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) 1 satellite into a geosynchronous transfer orbit 51 minutes later. The AEHF 1 satellite, built by Lockheed Martin, will be used by the US military to provide jam-resistant communications to troops in the field. The spacecraft, the first of at least three, has more capacity than the entire existing five-satellite Milstar constellation that it is succeeding.
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