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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Protective "radome" housing for the Galileo ground station on desolate Jan Mayen Island in the Norwegian Arctic. The site is housing a Galileo Sensor Station plus satellite link to pass data back to the Galileo ground system (Photo: ESA/Fermin Alvarez Lopez)

CGI joins with Thales on Galileo security software

May 3, 2019

CGI has signed an agreement with Thales Alenia Space France to enhance and maintain security software for the Galileo […]

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Army Stryker ground combat vehicle. (Photo: Karolis Kavolelis / Shutterstock.com)

New military code about to board 700+ platforms

April 9, 2019

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

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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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Photo: ESA

Galileo ground segment keeps constellation on track

March 28, 2018

News from the European Space Agency Galileo’s initial services have been running for more than 15 months now, […]

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Image: GPS World

GPS OCX software ready for 2018 GPS III launch

March 20, 2018

Raytheon Company’s GPS OCX program is ready for the U.S. Air Force’s launch of the first modernized GPS satellite […]

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The System: China launches BeiDou-3 twins

February 7, 2018

China launches BeiDou-3 twins China launched two BeiDou-3 navigation satellites into space on Jan. 12 as part of […]

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The GPS Operational Control System's launch and checkout system will control launch and early orbit operations and the on-orbit checkout of all GPS III satellites. (Image: Raytheon)Image: Raytheon

U.S. Air Force accepts delivery of GPS OCX baseline

November 2, 2017

The Space and Missile Systems Center announced that the United States Air Force has accepted delivery of the […]

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