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 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, ...

Air Force Space Command declared initial operational capability for the Advanced Extremely High Frequency satellite network in late July, and early reports show significant improvements in capacity ...

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 ...

AEHF TESTS: The U.S. Air Force announced May 11 that Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman have completed the first system-level requirements verification intersegment test to ensure that the Advanced ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

A USAF/Lockheed Martin team has successfully completed an accelerated on-orbit checkout of the last of five Milstar II secure communications satellites. The team completed the checkout and testing of ...

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.