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Air Force

Air Force Successfully Activates AEHF-2 Communications Payload

Wednesday, August 15th, 2012

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The Air Force successfully activated the second Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) satellite's payload yesterday at 2:25 p.m. EST, according to a Space and Missile Systems Center statement. Payload activation was accomplished from the AEHF command and control site located at Schriever AFB, Colo. During activation, the payload wings and antennas were deployed and the payload processors were initialized and verified in preparation for on-orbit test. The on-orbit test phase will take place over the next two months to verify communications capabilities for…

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