Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has successfully mated the spacecraft core structure and the payload module for the second Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) military communications satellite. The U.S. Air Force‘s AEHF system will provide global, highly secure, protected, survivable communications for all warfighters serving under the U.S. Department of Defense. Based on the company’s flight-proven A2100 geosynchronous spacecraft series, the AEHF core structure contains the integrated propulsion system as well as panels and other components—the structural foundation of the satellite. The payload module consists of the complete set of processing, routing, and control hardware and software that perform the satellite’s communications function, including critical features to protect the communications against interception or jamming threats. With the successful mate of the second AEHF satellite, the team of Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Sunnyvale, California, the Advanced EHF prime contractor, and Northrop Grumman Space Technology, Redondo Beach, California, the payload supplier, will begin system level environmental and acceptance testing of the fully integrated space vehicle in preparation for launch in early 2010.
Lockheed Martin + Northrop Grumman Bringing It All Together
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has successfully mated the spacecraft core structure and the payload module for the second Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) military communications satellite. The U.S. Air Force‘s AEHF system will provide global, highly secure, protected, survivable communications for all warfighters serving under the U.S. Department of Defense. Based on the company’s flight-proven A2100 geosynchronous spacecraft series, the AEHF core structure contains the integrated propulsion system as well as panels and other components—the structural foundation of the satellite. The payload module consists of the complete set of processing, routing, and control hardware and software that perform the satellite’s communications function, including critical features to protect the communications against interception or jamming threats. With the successful mate of the second AEHF satellite, the team of Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Sunnyvale, California, the Advanced EHF prime contractor, and Northrop Grumman Space Technology, Redondo Beach, California, the payload supplier, will begin system level environmental and acceptance testing of the fully integrated space vehicle in preparation for launch in early 2010.
