The second U.S. Air Force Milstar communications satellite, built by a team led by Lockheed Martin , has surpassed its 10-year design life of on-orbit service and will continue to provide secure, ...

TOBYHANNA ARMY DEPOT, Pa. - The Air Force isn't waiting for lighting to strike twice. After strikes shut down key Milstar satellite communications systems, they called Tobyhanna for help. Milstar, an ...

The Berlin Wall began to crumble in November 1989; the satellite communications system designed to counter the Cold War threats behind that wall had a first launch in February 1994. If delivering a ...

Precautionary modifications solve oscillation problems in rocket's Centaur upper stage Lockheed Martin is on schedule to launch the delayed final US Milstar-2 military communications satellite on 6 ...

Boeing has completed the successful testing of the software qualifications and systems integration for the Air Force's Family of Advanced Beyond Line-of-Sight Terminal (FAB-T) program, the company ...

The US Air Force launched its fourth Milstar military communications satellite aboard a Titan IV Centaur booster from Cape Canaveral on 27 February after a series of technical delays. The 5,000kg ...

Lockheed Martin will provide support services for a trio of satellite constellations over the next ten years, including the Advanced Extremely High Frequency satellites.(Lockheed Martin image) The Air ...

Milstar, formerly known as the Military Strategic and Tactical Relay, has reached 25 years of service. Milstar is responsible for providing the President, Secretary of Defense and the U.S. armed ...

The U.S. Air Force's Milstar advanced military communications satellite system has been instrumental in providing Global Hawk command-and-control operations over Iraq, including use of the large UAV ...

In with the new does not necessarily mean out with the old. The U.S. Defense Department’s new generation of military communications satellites will be both forward-looking and backward compatible.

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Aug. 4 (UPI) -- Operations of the Milstar satellite constellation has been transitioned to a new Advanced Extremely High Frequency Ground Control segment. The transition was ...

Lockheed Martin Space Systems reports that the Advanced Extremely High Frequency military communications satellite program, valued at $2.5 billion when it was awarded a year ago, has passed ...