USAF drops polar sats from next phase of transformational commo system

Because of a congressional budget cut, the U.S. Air Force has told contractors not to perform any work on the Advanced Polar System (APS) satellites in the next phase of the Transformational Communications MILSATCOM (TCM) space segment program, according to Lockheed Martin. The space segment of TCM...

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