MUOS-4 preps for August launch

MUOS 4 lift to shipping container (Wanda) in B159 shipping bay.

The fourth Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) satellite has arrived at Cape Canaveral.

The communications satellite is being prepped for an August launch aboard an Atlas V rocket. “MUOS-4 will complete our near global coverage, reaching further north and south toward the poles than ever before,” said Iris Bombelyn, Lockheed Martin’s vice president for narrowband communications, in a company news release.

MUOS-3 was launched last January.