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AEHF-1 Upper Stage Failure Due To ‘Quality Issue,’ Air Force Says

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Friday, February 18th, 2011

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By Marina MalenicORLANDO--The Air Force and Lockheed Martin [LMT] are in discussions regarding potential financial penalties for a "quality issue" that prevented a new communications satellite from reaching its orbit. Orbit-raising activities for the first Advanced Extremely High Frequency communications satellite (AEHF-1) are going according to plan, Air Force officials said earlier this month. Shortly after the launch last August, the plan was modified as a result of an anomaly with the bi-propellant propulsion system, which was intended to place…

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