Aero-News: Quote of the Day

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Aero-News Quote of the Day

"This third MUOS launch is another major step toward achieving a fully operational MUOS end-to-end capability by 2016. The Navy, in close collaboration with the Army, Air Force and our industry partners, is bringing the future of worldwide mobile satellite communications into reality for the United States and potentially allied nations."

Source: Navy Capt. Joseph Kan, the MUOS program manager, commenting as Navy and civilian engineers prep the latest military communications satellite for a planned Jan. 20 launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. The satellite is part of MUOS, or Mobile User Objective System, which operates like a smartphone network from space, vastly improving secure satellite communications for mobile U.S. forces. Unlike its predecessor system, MUOS provides users a global, on-demand, beyond-line-of-sight capability to transmit and receive high-quality voice and mission data from a high-speed Internet Protocol-based system.

FMI: www.navy.mil