United Launch Alliance, a joint venture between Boeing Co and Lockheed Martin Co...
A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket lifts off from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S., August 8, 2019. Aboard is the fifth Advanced Extremely High Frequency satellite, designed to provide the U.S. military with highly-secure communications. REUTERS/Joe Skipper
The satellite was launched at 6:13 a.m. from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Air Force Station atop ULA’s Atlas V rocket, the same vehicle primed to send a manned space capsule into orbit for NASA by 2020. The Lockheed Martin-built Advanced Extremely High Frequency satellite is one of six in a constellation upgrade to the Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center’s older Milstar network.
The joint venture is transitioning from its Atlas V rocket — a legacy workhorse for U.S. national security missions — to Vulcan Centaur, a heavy-lift vehicle tailored to compete for lucrative defense contracts and wean the United States off the Russian-made RD-180 engines that power Atlas.
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