TAG: GPS III

Ground antenna at Schriever Air Force Base, home of the 50th Space Wing. (Photo: Raytheon)

Raytheon to start global installation of GPS OCX receivers

May 13, 2019

Raytheon Company’s GPS Next-Generation Operational Control System program, known as GPS OCX, completed final qualification testing of the […]


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After several delays, the first GPS III satellite has successfully deployed from the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, which launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 8:51 a.m. EST on Dec. 23. (Photo: Lockheed Martin)

Harris receives GPS III Follow-On payload contract

April 13, 2019

Harris Corporation has received a $243 million contract from Lockheed Martin to provide fully digital navigation signals for the […]


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Photo: Collins Aerospace

New military code about to board 700+ platforms

April 9, 2019

Rolling out the big M Much development has been necessary to enable the new M-code capability on more […]


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Artists’ renderings: Lockheed Martin and Boeing Co.

Benefits coming from GPS III constellation

April 1, 2019

That was then. This is now. When managed by a new ground control system, GPS III satellites will […]


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Lockheed Martin shipped the U.S. Air Force’s first GPS III to Cape Canaveral, Florida ahead of its expected July launch. (Photo: Lockheed Martin}

Second GPS III satellite delivered for July launch

March 26, 2019

The U.S. Air Force’s second new GPS III satellite, bringing higher-power, more accurate and harder-to-jam signals to the […]


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Figure 1. Theoretical spectra of the four signals transmitted by a GPS III satellite in the L1 frequency band. (Image: Authors)

First light: Broadcast of L1C by GPS III

March 19, 2019

Less than three weeks after its launch, the first GPS III satellite, SVN74, started transmitting navigation signals. SVN74 […]


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All hail the GPS Gold Standard’s new golden era

January 10, 2019

Elsewhere in this (January) issue you’ll find the hard facts — basic, but hard — concerning the inaugural […]


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SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket orbited the first GPS III satellite on Dec. 23, 2018. (Photo: SpaceX)

GPS III finally aloft, benefits on the way

January 9, 2019

On December 23, the first GPS III satellite entered an orbit around Earth, after a five-day delay. This […]


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