Скачать или смотреть The U.S. Air Force will launch a WGS 10 satellite on Wednesday

The U.S. Air Force on Wednesday will launch a Wideband Global Satcom satellite aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta 4 medium rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida.

This will be the 10th satellite of the WGS constellation that provides broadband communications for the U.S. military and allies. Boeing was selected as the WGS manufacturer in 2001. The first satellite was launched in 2007.

Up until a year ago, the Air Force had planned to make WGS-10 the last of the constellation and had been studying alternatives such as buying commercial broadband services from the private sector. But Congress had other ideas. On grounds that the Air Force was lagging in developing a strategy for acquiring satellite broadband into the future, appropriators out of nowhere inserted $600 million into the Pentagon’s fiscal year 2018 budget for the procurement of WGS-11 and WGS-12.

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