The realignment does not affect the MUOS program. But any future narrowband satcom acquisition will be handled by the Air Force.
The company bested incumbent Intelsat General and one other company in winning a contract potentially worth $450 million to provide commercial satellite connectivity to the U.S. Navy.
The U.S. Navy was forced to postpone the final certification test of its next-generation mobile satellite communications system to December 2015 because of problems integrating the system’s new radio frequency waveform with the ground segment and terminals.
Lockheed Martin has delivered its third satellite in the U.S. Navy’s next-generation mobile communications program to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida.
The satellite is expected to launch in summer 2015.
The U.S. Navy has formally accepted three of a planned four General Dynamics-built ground stations for its next-generation mobile communications satellite program.
U.S. officials previously said crews would need 14 months to complete the project once work resumes, which leaves little margin given that MUOS is planned to be fully operational by 2015.
The move underscores NASA’s desire to keep the $8.8 billion James Webb Space Telescope on track for its long-awaited launch.
The U.S. Navy’s Mobile User Objective System (MOUS)-2 satellite was delivered safely to its orbital drop-off point July 19 and is expected to spend the next eight days climbing to its operational orbit 36,000 kilometers above the equator.
A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket launched the second of the U.S. Navy’s new generation of mobile communications satellites July 19 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla.
Navy’s MUOS will use a network of four main ground stations, including the one in Sicily.
Lockheed has delivered a SBIRS craft to the U.S. Air Force and completed ground testing of MUOS.
Lockheed Martin has completed and delivered a new software waveform that will enable the U.S. Navy to get the most out of MUOS.
The first of a new generation of mobile communications satellites built for the U.S. Navy has entered into service.
WASHINGTON — U.S. President Barack Obama has selected U.S. Navy Rear Adm. James Syring as the next director of the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA), according to a Pentagon announcement.
Globecomm Systems of Hauppauge, N.Y., DRS Technical Services of Herndon, Va., and L-3 Communications’ 3Di Technologies division of Hanover, Md., will provide satellite communications network equipment and related services to the U.S. Navy under contracts with a combined potential value of $85 million over the next five years, the Pentagon announced July 9.
