Atlas V Launch, August 31st

The United Launch Alliance (ULA) will be launching an Atlas V next Monday carrying a U.S. Navy satellite, the MUOS-4. Monday’s mission “seeks to launch the U.S. Navy’s fourth Mobile User Objective System satellite… to an orbit more than 22,000 miles over the equator.”  The launch is still scheduled for 6:07 a.m. on August 31, despite Tropical Storm Erika’s trajectory for Florida’s east coast. Due to the early launch times, the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex will not be open for viewing.

The MUOS-4 is the fourth satellite in an array of next-generations Navy communications satellites, designed to improve communications for U.S. ground forces. The Satellite will be carried aboard the Atlas V rocket, developed by the ULA for U.S. military and government missions.

For more information about the launch, click here. To read more about the mission on Florida Today, click here.

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