 Welcome to All Hands Update. I'm Petty Officer Andrew Johnson. Navy and civilian engineers are preparing for an upcoming military communications satellite launch January 20th. The launch from Cape Canaveral will deploy the Navy's third mobile user objective system, or MUO, satellite into space. MUO 3 is a next-generation, narrow-band tactical communication system that will work like a smartphone network, but from space. It will vastly improve ground communications for U.S. forces on the move, and once fully operational will provide 16 times the capacity of current systems. MUO's will provide warfighters global coverage to transmit and receive high-quality voice and mission data before the end of 2015. Lockheed Martin is currently under contract to deliver five MUO satellites and the associated ground system to the U.S. Navy.