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

US 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 […]

Read More

This article is tagged with 2 SOPS, coronavirus, GPS constellation, GPS III, Magaellan, NANU, Navstar, Space Force, SV02, SVN75, U.S. Space Force and posted in COVID-19, Defense, Featured Stories, Latest News

A ULA Delta IV rocket carrying GPS III SV02 lifts off from Space Launch Complex-37 on Aug. 22. (Photo: ULA)

Contingency Ops, GPS III SV02 receive Operational Acceptance from USSF

March 30, 2020

The Space and Missile Systems Center achieved a major GPS milestone on March 27 with the Contingency Operations […]

Read More

This article is tagged with COps, GPS III, GPS III SV02, GPS Operational Control System, Lockheed Martin, Operational Acceptance, Operational Acceptance approval, Operational Control System, SV02, U.S. Space Force and posted in Featured Stories, GNSS, Latest News

GPS IIIF’s M-Code can be broadcast from a high-gain directional antenna in a concentrated, high-powered spot beam, in addition to a wide-angle, full-Earth antenna. (Artist rendering: Lockheed Martin)

Final steps underway to operationalize new GPS M-code signal

March 30, 2020

U.S. Space Force, Lockheed Martin upgrade Operational Control System (OCS) and refresh GPS constellation with new satellites. The […]

Read More

This article is tagged with GPS Ground Operational Control System, GPS III, GPS III SV02, GPS OCS, Lockheed Martin, M-code, M-Code Early Use, M-MSTIC, MCEU, OCS, Operational Acceptance, U.S. Space Force and posted in Defense, GNSS, Latest News

Image: USAF

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 […]

Read More

This article is tagged with 2 SOPS, GPS III, GPS III SV02, Magellan, Space and Missile Systems Center, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Space Force and posted in GNSS, Latest News

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 […]

Read More

This article is tagged with 2 SOPS, GPS III, GPS III SV03, Lockheed Martin, SV03, U.S. Space Force and posted in Featured Stories, GNSS, Latest News