Satnews Daily
September 18th, 2008

Northrop Grumman Completes Their AEHF Integration Goodies


USAF's AEHF satellite Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) has completed integrating all electronic units of the payload module for the third Advanced Extremely High Frequency (EHF) military communications satellite. The company is under contract to provide three communications payloads to Advanced EHF prime contractor Lockheed Martin (NYSE:LMT), Sunnyvale, California. Integrated with Lockheed Martin's A2100 space vehicle structure, the payload module consists of the complete set of radio frequency, processing, routing and control hardware and software that perform the satellite's protected communications function. The equipment includes approximately 20 electronics units and approximately 500,000 lines of software code.