Geostationary
AEHF-2 (USA 235)
Military EHF Communications · US Space Force
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The second AEHF satellite, completing the first pair needed for global protected communications coverage. AEHF-2 provides the US strategic nuclear command structure, President, Secretary of Defense, and combatant commanders worldwide with guaranteed communications that remain functional even during a nuclear exchange — resistant to jamming, nuclear EMP, and scintillation effects. Positioned at a different orbital slot from AEHF-1 to maximize global coverage.
Its orbit
- Orbit
- Geostationaryappears to hang motionless over one spot on the equator
- Altitude
- 22,235–22,249 mi (35,784–35,806 km)
- Inclination
- 6.9°
- One orbit
- 23.9 hoursabout one orbit a day
- NORAD ID
- 38254
- Int’l designator
- 2012-019A
- Launched
- 2012
Orbital elements from CelesTrak, as of 22 Sep 2026.
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