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ULA Completes 50th Launch For U.S. Air Force With AEHF Mission

Defense Daily Staff

Wednesday, October 17th, 2018

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ULA Completes 50th Launch For U.S. Air Force With AEHF Mission

Integration of the payload module for the fourth Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) protected communications satellite. Photo: Northrop Grumman, by Alex Evers

United Launch Alliance (ULA) successfully carried the fourth Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) mission into orbit for the U.S. Air Force on an Atlas V rocket that took off early Wednesday morning from Cape Canaveral. This rocket used was an Atlas V Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) 551 configuration vehicle standing at 197 feet tall, and equipped with a 5-meter large payload fairing.AEHF-4 marks ULA’s 50th launch for the U.S. Air Force dating back to the Space Test Program-1 (STP-1)…

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