Built by Lockheed Martin and launched between 2012 and 2019, the U.S. Navy-initiated MUOS program includes four orbiting satellites and one spare.
Credit: Lockheed Martin
The Pentagon is studying options to provide U.S. military operators and allies with smartphone-like communications from disparate resilient satellite constellations. The U.S. Space Force has expressed interest in moving narrowband, beyond-line-of-sight and point-to-point communications services to...
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