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Air Force Delays Launching AEHF, SBIRS Satellites

By Marc Selinger

Monday, August 14th, 2017

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The Air Force is pushing back the launches of two Lockheed Martin [LMT]-built satellites that were supposed to lift off in fall 2017.Each spacecraft – the fourth Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF-4) protected-communications satellite and the fourth Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) geosynchronous Earth orbit (GEO Flight-4) missile-warning satellite – is slated to ride on a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. ULA is a joint venture of Boeing [BA] and Lockheed Martin.The AEHF-4 launch has been delayed…

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