SpaceX launched their Falcon 9 rocket with the third Block III Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite, named SV03. Block III is the next generation of GPS satellites, replacing the aging Block ...

In this article, we show the efforts we have made at ESA to bring the quality of our orbit estimates for the GPS Block III satellites up to par with those for Galileo and the earlier GPS satellite ...

(Credit: United Launch Alliance) The last GPS Block IIF satellite built by the Boeing Co. was sent into orbit for the U.S. Air Force today, filling out a set of a dozen. United Launch Alliance ...

The GPS IIF-12, scheduled for a Feb. 5 launch, will the twelfth and final satellite in the Block IIF group that's been operating since 2010, and the final GPS II launch, which has been sending ...

PATRICK AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. — The last Air Force GPS IIF in a block of 12 satellites was delivered to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, from Boeing's manufacturing facility in El ...

A towering United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket thundered to life and climbed into space Thursday evening, boosting an upgraded Global Positioning System navigation satellite into orbit.

"The GPS satellites are actually just highly precise ... "Because it's such a weak signal, it's very, very easy to block, to jam," Goward says. "Virtually any noise within that frequency is ...

On Feb. 3, the Air Force plans to launch the 12th, and last, satellite in the Block IIF series of modernized GPS spacecraft. The Air Force has produced 12 IIF satellites, featuring new clocks, new ...

For GPS, larger numbers of small satellites augmenting the larger spacecraft ... software upgrades or swapped out in future development blocks. That sort of flexible design, he said, could allow ...

The Air Force launched the first “Block I” GPS satellite into space in 1974. 1974 The branches of the military, after having worked on a GPS system for the past 11 years, launch the first ...

The Air Force buys GPS satellites in generational blocks, each block representing an improvement over the previous, with the first generation providing only one military and civil signal.