Initial communications payload delivered for MUOS

Boeing Co. has delivered the first communications payload and digital channelizer to Lockheed Martin Corp. for the Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) satellite communications system.

MUOS comprises a network of satellites that will furnish communications services to mobile and fixed equipment used by U.S. military personnel around the globe. The Boeing-assembled Legacy Communications payload will enable the Navy to use existing ultra high frequency ground- and space-based communications systems, Boeing officials said this week.

Boeing has a subcontract with MUOS prime contractor Lockheed Martin to build, test and deliver three Legacy Communications payloads and three digital channelizers for the MUOS satellite system.

Boeing won the subcontract in 2004. The first MUOS satellite is scheduled for launch in 2010. Boeing assembled and tested the first flight payload subsystem at its satellite factory in El Segundo, Calif., and subsequently shipped it to Lockheed Martin’s Space Systems facility in Newtown, Pa., for final assembly and payload testing.