Air Force Official: Three-Year AEHF Launch Break 'Not Really A Concern'

By Courtney Albon / September 13, 2013 at 2:53 PM
The Air Force next week will launch its third Advanced Extremely High Frequency satellite in the last four years -- the last AEHF satellite to liftoff before a three-year pause in the program's launch schedule. The Air Force's AEHF program manager said this week that the pause should not affect the service's ability to meet requirements. Col. Rod Miller, AEHF program director from the Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center's Military Satellite Communications Systems directorate, told reporters during a...

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