AEHF-1 Reaches Orbit

Credit: Ben Cooper/AW&ST
The first spacecraft in the U.S. Air Force’s Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) military communications satellite network, launched Aug. 14, will spend the next three months circularizing its orbit. When circularization is complete, the spacecraft will fly about 22,300 mi. over the equator at...

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