South Korea’s first military communications satellite has arrived at Cape Canaveral for launch aboard Falcon 9 next month

An An-124 cargo plane has delivered a Anasis 2 communications satellite on Jun. 8 to Cape Canaveral. The military communications satellite will be launch into space aboard a Falcon 9 rocket next month.

Launch of Falcon 9 carrying ABS-EUTELSAT (16510241270)
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The satellite was previously designated as KMilSatCom 1 and is owed by the South Korean government. Seoul bought the satellite as part of the offset arrangements for its purchase of F-35As. Lockheed Martin subcontracted the manufacture of the satellite to Airbus.

Anasis 2 is based on the Eurostar E3000 spacecraft platform.

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