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Artist's depiction of a GPS IIA satellite in orbit. (Image: USAF)

2 SOPS disposes last GPS IIA satellite after 26 years

April 17, 2020

News by Airman 1st Class Jonathan Whitely 50th Space Wing Public Affairs Schriever Air Force Base The 2nd […]


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Senior Master Sgt. Michael Welch, 50th Contracting Squadron superintendent, distributes sanitizer to an Airman at the 50th Logistics Readiness Flight warehouse at Schriever Air Force Base, Colorado, April 2, 2020. The 50th CONS secured sanitizing supplies to units across the base to prevent Airmen from contracting COVID-19. (Photo: U.S. Air Force / Airman 1st Class Jonathan Whitely)

Schriever stays operational despite COVID-19

April 3, 2020

News from the U.S. Air Force, 50th Space Wing Despite the worldwide COVID-19 response, the 50th Space Wing […]


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The second GPS III satellite is encapsulated before launch. (Photo: Lockheed Martin)

U.S. Space Force accepts control of GPS III SV02 amidst global pandemic

April 1, 2020

The second GPS III satellite, nicknamed Magellan, has been designated healthy and usable. According to a Notice of […]


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GPS III SV02 satellite control authority transferred to 2 SOPS

March 24, 2020

On March 23, the U.S. Space Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center successfully transferred the second GPS III […]


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Lockheed Martin shipped the U.S. Space Force’s third GPS III satellite to Cape Canaveral, Florida, ahead of its expected April launch. (Photo: Lockheed Martin)

Third GPS III arrives at Cape Canaveral for April launch

February 10, 2020

The nation’s third next-generation GPS III satellite — and the first delivered by Lockheed Martin to the new […]


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Second Lt. Kelley McCaa, 2nd Space Operations Squadron satellite vehicle operator, and Airman 1st Class John Garcia, 2nd SOPS satellite systems operator, set satellite vehicle number-74, the first iteration of GPS Block III vehicles, as healthy and active to users Jan. 13, 2020, Schriever Air Force Base, Colorado,. Setting the vehicle healthy and active makes the satellite available for use by military and civilian GPS users around the world for agriculture, banking and navigation. (Photo: U.S. Air Force/Staff Sgt. Matthew Coleman-Foster)

2nd Space Operations Squadron sets first GPS III healthy and active

January 15, 2020

By Staff Sgt. Matthew Coleman-Foster, 50th Space Wing Public Affairs The 2nd Space Operations Squadron set Satellite Vehicle […]


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First GPS III satellite now available

January 13, 2020

The U.S. Air Force Second Space Operations Squadron (2 SOPS) has issued a statement that the first GPS […]


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Capt. Adam Moody, 2SOPS GPS Operations Support flight commander, and Staff Sgt. Carl Ellinger, 2 SOPS GPS mission chief, review a checklist of procedures for a transfer operation at Schriever Air Force Base. (U.S. Air Force photo/Dennis Rogers)

2 SOPS continues GPS modifications this summer

February 28, 2019

The 2nd Space Operations Squadron (2 SOPS), based at Schriever Air Force Base, will implement the GPS Issue of […]


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