CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., June 29 (UPI) -- The U.S. Navy and Lockheed Martin delivered Sunday the fourth Mobile User Objective System satellite to the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station for launch in August.
The new Mobile User Objective System satellite, or MUOS, is a part of a network of orbiting satellites from Lockheed Martin and relay ground stations for secure communications for mobile military forces, providing seamless connections and smart phone-like capabilities. Among them are voice, video and mission data transmission on a high-speed Internet Protocol-based system.