News Archive / Tagged: GPS

• Delta IV Medium ends 17-Year run with 100% success

  Jim SiegelAugust 25th, 2019

  ULA's Delta IV Medium rocket, which made its debut flight in 2002, finished its 17-year career by propelling a GPS III satellite into medium Earth orbit.

• Lockheed Martin submits proposal for US Air Force’s GPS IIIF program

  Jim SharkeyApril 23rd, 2018

  Lockheed Martin has submitted a proposal for the U.S. Air Force's GPS III Follow On (GPS IIIF) program, which would add new capabilities to new GPS satellites. Up to 22 next-generation spacecraft are expected to be produced under this program.

• U.S. Air Force declares first GPS III satellite ‘Available for Launch’

  Jim SharkeyOctober 14th, 2017

  On Tuesday, October 10, 2017, the U.S. Air Force declared that the first Lockheed Martin-built GPS III satellite will be "Available for Launch" in 2018.

• JAXA launches second ‘Michibiki’ navigation satellite

  Bart LeahyJune 1st, 2017

  TANEGASHIMA SPACE CENTER, Japan — A Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) H-IIA rocket launched the second of four navigation satellites. The satellite, Michibiki-2, is part of a system designed to provide global positioning system (GPS) services for the Japanese home islands.

• Japanese navigation constellation set to expand with H-IIA launch

  Derek RichardsonMay 30th, 2017

  Japan is set to launch its third H-IIA rocket in 2017. The two-stage vehicle, the workhorse for the Japanese space agency, will send to space Michibiki-2, the second satellite in the country’s regional navigation system.