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Navy Discussing Funding Sixth MUOS Satellite With Foreign Partners

/ August 28, 2015 at 4:36 PM
The Navy has entered into discussions with multiple countries to determine how those foreign partners could potentially fund a sixth Mobile User Objective System satellite, according to a service official. The Navy has not yet made a decision to fund a satellite beyond the current five MUOS spacecraft. But Capt. Joe Kan, MUOS program manager, said he met with representatives from Canada, Australia, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom in mid-August to determine if some combination of those countries could...

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