GPSIII prior to anechoic testing. Lockheed Martin’s GPS III satellites (pictured) are hardened to make them harder to jam, but a quest for new systems integrity and redundancy is ongoing for the ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched a GPS III satellite May 30 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Base in Florida. (SpaceX) The Space Force successfully sent its latest GPS III satellite to orbit Friday, ...

Thanks to the Contingency Operations program, the military is able to utilize the first GPS III satellite without the next-generation ground segment being built for it. The second GPS III satellite ...

The GPS III satellite armada will eventually make our GPS technology more accurate, but we're not quite there yet. Just three satellites have been launched thus far, and only one of them is ...

Lockheed Martin said its prototype next-generation Global Positioning System satellite can communicate with the existing GPS satellite constellation. During compatibility testing in October at Cape ...

The Global Positioning System enterprise reached another major milestone on Oct. 21, when the GPS III Contingency Operations Program (COps) successfully connected with the first GPS III satellite on ...

No audio available for this content. After several delays, the first GPS III satellite has successfully deployed from the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, which launched from the Cape Canaveral Air Force ...

The United States Space Force (USSF) and the Space and the Missile Systems Center achieved another major Global Positioning System (GPS) milestone on July 27 when the GPS III Space Vehicle (SV) 03 ...

Today the US Space Force launched its newest satellite, one of only a handful of the new GPS III design, which is more accurate and more resistant to interference—like signal-jamming—than its older ...

The defense contractor wins a $1.4 billion contract from the U.S. Air Force to build the next generation of navigation satellites, set to be more accurate and more resistant to jamming. Jon Skillings ...

No audio available for this content. GPS III Space Vehicle 02 (GPS III SV02) is complete, tested and expected to launch in 2019. As the first Lockheed Martin-built GPS III satellite prepares to ship ...

United Launch Alliance's Delta IV GPS III Magellan rocket launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., on Aug. 22, 2019. (Airman 1st Class Dalton Williams/U.S. Air Force) The second GPS III ...