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 ...

Jan. 6 was the last day of service for GPS satellite SVN-26. SVN-26 was a Boeing/Rockwell International Block II GPS satellite launched July 7, 1992. It was one of the first generation of operational ...

(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 ...

GPS is simple, trustworthy and always on. It is also vulnerable. GPS satellites blanket the world with two pieces of information: where they are in orbit and what time it is. The time it takes for ...

The service has launched six GPS III satellites since 2018. OCX will incrementally replace the ground system that operates those satellites today, which Lockheed Martin has sustained since 2013.

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 USSF Lockheed Martin-built GPS III Space Vehicle 08 (GPS III SV08) has successfully launched into orbit aboard SpaceX’s ...

Angry-looking red thunderstorms lit up National Weather Service radar screens along the northern portion of the Cape about 1½ ...