Locally-built Satellite Shipped Out

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Muhammed El-Hasan
on February 4, 2009 3:21 PM | | Comments (0) |

Boeing's El Segundo satellite facility said that it shipped its second Wideband Global SATCOM satellite to Cape Canaveral Air Station in Florida, where it will be readied for a March launch.

Known as WGS-2, the satellite is the second in a series of new, high-capacity military communications satellites used by the Air Force. When the constellation is complete, the Air Force will have six of these satellites.

The WGS satellites eventually will replace the Defense Satellite Communication System and the Global Broadcast Service function currently used by the Air Force.

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