The System: Next GPS IIF in October
September 10, 2012
Next GPS IIF in October The next GPS satellite, Block IIF-3 (SVN65), scheduled to be launched on October […]
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Next GPS IIF in October The next GPS satellite, Block IIF-3 (SVN65), scheduled to be launched on October […]
Spaceflight Now is reporting that the next GPS satellite, Block IIF-3 (SVN65) to be launched on October 4, 2012, will be positioned in orbital slot 1, which is in plane A. This slot is currently occupied by a Block IIA satellite, SVN39, operating as PRN09. SVN39 is one of the oldest operating satellites in the GPS fleet, having been launched on June 26, 1993.
GPS III Endures Bad Press, IIAs an OCX Concern Reports in daily news media such as the Washington […]
The U.S. Air Force has awarded Lockheed Martin a $21.5 million contract to provide a Launch and Checkout Capability (LCC) to command and control all GPS III satellites from launch through early on-orbit testing. The LCC, which will be integrated into the Raytheon-developed Next Generation Operational Control System (OCX), will ensure launch availability for the first GPS III satellite in 2014. The LCC includes trained satellite operators and engineering solutions in partnership with OCX to support launch, early orbit operations and checkout of all GPS III satellites before the spacecraft are turned over to Air Force Space Command for operations.
EGNOS Toolkits Enhance GPS Accuracy Free downloadable software Toolkits at www.egnos-portal.eu can help cell-phone and handheld receiver developers […]
At the Civil GPS Service Interface Committee meeting in Portland, Oregon, on September 20, Sergey Revnivykh, Deputy Director […]
Global Positioning System experts from Air Force Space Command and the Space and Missile Systems Center will hold a media roundtable teleconference tomorrow, September 24, at 2:30 p.m. Mountain Time (4:30 p.m. Eastern Time) to discuss the recent GAO report titled “Global Positioning System: Challenges in Sustaining and Upgrading Capabilities Persist.” Colonel David Buckman, AFSPC command lead for positioning, navigation and timing, and Colonel Bernard Gruber, commander of the Global Positioning System Wing at Los Angeles Air Force Base, will participate in the teleconference.
As this issue goes to press in late August, the first Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Quasi-Zenith Satellite System […]
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