The third Mobile User Objective System satellite is on track for a January launch despite a delay due to a hardware deficiency discovered during thermal vacuum testing, according to a Lockheed Martin executive. Before the deficiency was discovered the Navy was launching satellites once a year but, after they discovered an issue with the SV-3 satellite they could not make the annual July slot, Iris Bombelyn, vice president of narrowband communications and MUOS program manager for Lockheed Martin, told Inside...
