14 DAY TRIAL // According to representatives from the US Navy, the Department of Defense and the Lockheed Martin Corporation will launch a new satellite today, from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
The spacecraft will take off at around 5:46 pm EST (2246 GMT) on February 16. It represents a part of the Mobile User Objective System (MUOS), a constellation of spacecraft that is eventually destined to replace the country's existing narrowband UHF satellites.
“The MUOS constellation will offer significantly improved coverage, capacity and, for the first time, communications on the move for the warfighter,” Lockheed MUOS Program Manager Mark Pasquale says, quoted by Space.
The MUOS spacecraft will launch aboard an Atlas 5 rocket provided by the United Launch Alliance – a collaboration between Lockheed and the Boeing Company.