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Delta IV to launch WGS-7
Mission Overview
Rocket/Payload: A United Launch Alliance Delta IV Medium+ (5,4) configuration will launch the seventh Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS-7) mission for the U.S. Air Force.
Date/Site/Launch Time: Thursday, July 23, 2015, from Space Launch Complex-37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. The 40-minute launch window opens at 8:07 p.m. EDT.
Webcast: The live broadcast will begin at 7:47 p.m. EDT.
Mission Description: WGS satellites are important elements of a new high-capacity satellite communications system providing enhanced communications capabilities to America's troops in the field for the next decade and beyond. WGS enables more robust and flexible execution of Command and Control, Communications Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C4ISR), as well as battle management and combat support information functions. The WGS constellation augments the existing service available through the UHF Follow-on satellite by providing enhanced information broadcast capabilities.
Launch Notes: WGS-7 will be the 30th Delta IV mission since the vehicle's inaugural flight in 2002. This is the fifth flight in the Medium+ (5,4) configuration, and all launches in this configuration were WGS missions.
Launch Updates: To keep up to speed with updates to the launch countdown, dial the ULA launch hotline at 1-877-852-4321 or join the conversation at facebook.com/ulalaunch, twitter.com/ulalaunch or instagram.com/ulalaunch; hashtags #WGS7 and #DeltaIV.
Go Delta! Go WGS-7!
Delta IV to launch WGS-7
Mission Overview
Rocket/Payload: A United Launch Alliance Delta IV Medium+ (5,4) configuration will launch the seventh Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS-7) mission for the U.S. Air Force.
Date/Site/Launch Time: Thursday, July 23, 2015, from Space Launch Complex-37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. The 40-minute launch window opens at 8:07 p.m. EDT.
Webcast: The live broadcast will begin at 7:47 p.m. EDT.
Mission Description: WGS satellites are important elements of a new high-capacity satellite communications system providing enhanced communications capabilities to America's troops in the field for the next decade and beyond. WGS enables more robust and flexible execution of Command and Control, Communications Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C4ISR), as well as battle management and combat support information functions. The WGS constellation augments the existing service available through the UHF Follow-on satellite by providing enhanced information broadcast capabilities.
Launch Notes: WGS-7 will be the 30th Delta IV mission since the vehicle's inaugural flight in 2002. This is the fifth flight in the Medium+ (5,4) configuration, and all launches in this configuration were WGS missions.
Launch Updates: To keep up to speed with updates to the launch countdown, dial the ULA launch hotline at 1-877-852-4321 or join the conversation at facebook.com/ulalaunch, twitter.com/ulalaunch or instagram.com/ulalaunch; hashtags #WGS7 and #DeltaIV.