United Kingdom, May 20 -- The UK's next-generation military communications satellite - Skynet 6A - has successfully completed the coupling of its communications and service modules.The spacecraft - designed and built at Airbus' Stevenage and Portsmouth plants - will provide vital communications services for Britain's armed forces and achieved the major milestone at the National Satellite Test Facility (NSTF) in Harwell, Oxfordshire. The NSTF is operated by the Science and Technology Facilities Council's RAL Space. The Airbus Skynet satellite programme has provided the UK military with sovereign capability for the past 50 years and the 6A spacecraft builds on that wealth of home-grown experience to incorporate new, innovative capabilities to...