Testing for AEHF-6 was conducted from seven locations across the United States and involved nine organizations and more than 100 space professionals.
Orbit raising to geosynchronous Earth orbit and performance testing for AEHF-6 were completed in August.
AEHF-6 military communications satellite launched 2020-03-26.
AEHF-6 successfully completed on-orbit testing on 2020-08-27.
The 2020-03-26 national security launch of the AEHF-6 satellite required about 300 government personnel on base.
The Atlas 5 launched AEHF-6 in the 551 configuration with five side-mounted solid rocket boosters.
AEHF-6 is a $1,400,000,000 Advanced Extremely High Frequency communications satellite for the U.S. Space Force.
AEHF-6 was the 83rd Atlas 5 launch since 2002 and the 11th Atlas 5 mission in the 551 configuration.
A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket lifted off on 2020-03-26 at 4:18 PM EST from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station carrying the AEHF-6 communications satellite.
The U.S. Space Force classed the AEHF-6 satellite mission as essential because it provides highly secure, nuclear-hardened communications to military forces.
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V mission carrying the Advanced Extremely High Frequency AEHF-6 satellite remained scheduled for 2020-03-26 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida.
The Advanced Extremely High Frequency AEHF-6 military communications satellite was scheduled to launch on 2020-03-26, from Cape Canaveral, Florida aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket.
After AEHF-6, Parsons’ next launch manifest integration job will be a secondary payload that will ride with Landsat-9, an Earth observation satellite that NASA plans to launch in 2021.
AEHF-6 is the sixth and final satellite of the Advanced Extremely High Frequency constellation and is scheduled to lift off 2020-03-19 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida.
AEHF-6 is scheduled to launch in 2020.
The final AEHF satellite, AEHF-6, is in full production and was expected to launch in 2020.
The 2019-10-01 contract allows the Air Force to launch the AEHF-6, AFSPC-7, and NROL-101 missions on previously ordered Atlas 5 rockets.
The AEHF-6 and NROL-101 missions will use the Atlas 5551 configuration with five side-mounted solid rocket boosters.
The AEHF-6 and NROL-101 missions were awarded to ULA in 2017.
The $98,500,000 Atlas 5 completion contract runs through December 2020 and covers infrastructure and support for the AEHF-6, AFSPC-7, and NROL-101 missions.