CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE
STATION, Fla., June 29, 2015
/PRNewswire/ -- Delivered by the U.S. Navy and Lockheed Martin
(NYSE: LMT), the fourth Mobile User Objective System (MUOS)
satellite arrived at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, yesterday prior to its expected
August launch aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V
rocket.
Downloadable MUOS-4 packing for shipment photos available
at: http://ow.ly/OWZK1
MUOS-4 is the latest addition to a network of orbiting
satellites and relay ground stations that is revolutionizing secure
communications for mobile military forces. Users with operational
MUOS terminals can seamlessly connect beyond line-of-sight around
the globe. MUOS' new smart phone-like capabilities include
simultaneous crystal-clear voice, and video and mission data, on a
high-speed Internet Protocol-based system.
Traditional UHF satellite communication systems allow users to
'talk' as long as they are geographically close enough to be under
the coverage footprint of the same satellite.
"MUOS allows troops all over the world to talk, text and share
mission data seamlessly, while traveling, like a cellular network,
without having to worry about where they are in relation to a
satellite," said Iris Bombelyn,
Lockheed Martin's vice president for narrowband communications.
"MUOS-4 will complete our near global coverage, reaching further
north and south toward the poles than ever before."
Manufactured at Lockheed Martin's Sunnyvale, California facility, MUOS-4 was
shipped from nearby Moffett Federal Airfield, where the 60th Air
Mobility Wing of Travis Air Force
Base loaded the satellite aboard a C-5 Galaxy aircraft for
delivery. In Florida, Astrotech
Space Operations, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Lockheed Martin,
will complete MUOS-4's pre-launch processing.
The MUOS network is expected to be operational by year-end.
MUOS-1, MUOS-2 and MUOS-3 launched respectively in 2012, 2013 and
January 2015. All four required MUOS
ground stations are complete. More than 55,000 currently fielded
radio terminals can be upgraded to be MUOS-compatible, with many of
them requiring just a software upgrade.
For additional information, photos and video visit:
www.lockheedmartin.com/muos
About Lockheed Martin
Headquartered in Bethesda,
Maryland, Lockheed Martin is a global security and aerospace
company that employs approximately 112,000 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
2014 were $45.6 billion.
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