The Legacy Communications payload allows the U.S. Navy to use existing UHF ground- and space-based communications systems. MUOS is a network of satellites that will provide communications services to mobile and fixed equipment used by U.S. military personnel around the world. Boeing is under contract to MUOS prime contractor Lockheed Martin to build, testm and deliver three Legacy Communications payloads and three digital channelizers for the MUOS satellite system. Boeing received the contract in 2004; the first MUOS satellite is scheduled for launch in 2010. Boeing integrated and tested the first flight payload subsystem at its satellite factory in El Segundo, California, and then shipped it to Lockheed Martin's Space Systems facility in Newtown, Pennyslvania, for final integration and payload testing.
Satnews Daily
February 17th, 2009
MUOS Moving On Up
The Legacy Communications payload allows the U.S. Navy to use existing UHF ground- and space-based communications systems. MUOS is a network of satellites that will provide communications services to mobile and fixed equipment used by U.S. military personnel around the world. Boeing is under contract to MUOS prime contractor Lockheed Martin to build, testm and deliver three Legacy Communications payloads and three digital channelizers for the MUOS satellite system. Boeing received the contract in 2004; the first MUOS satellite is scheduled for launch in 2010. Boeing integrated and tested the first flight payload subsystem at its satellite factory in El Segundo, California, and then shipped it to Lockheed Martin's Space Systems facility in Newtown, Pennyslvania, for final integration and payload testing.