{"id":15747,"date":"2016-02-02T18:42:36","date_gmt":"2016-02-02T10:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/photos-gps-2f-12-navigation-spacecraft-readied-for-launch\/"},"modified":"2016-02-02T18:42:36","modified_gmt":"2016-02-02T10:42:36","slug":"photos-gps-2f-12-navigation-spacecraft-readied-for-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/photos-gps-2f-12-navigation-spacecraft-readied-for-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: GPS 2F-12 navigation spacecraft readied for launch"},"content":{"rendered":"

This collection of photographs shows the Air Force\u2019s Global Positioning System 2F-12 navigation satellite being encapsulated in the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 nose cone and hoisted atop the rocket for flight on Friday morning.<\/p>\n

Encapsulation occurred at Cape Canaveral\u2019s Area 59 processing facility for the GPS satellites on Jan. 19. Stacking atop the Atlas occurred Jan. 30 at the Vertical Integration Facility located at Complex 41.<\/p>\n

Photos by United Launch Alliance<\/strong><\/p>\n

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See earlier GPS 2F-12 coverage.<\/p>\n

Our Atlas archive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This collection of photographs shows the Air Force\u2019s Global Positioning System 2F-12 navigation satellite being encapsulated in the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 nose cone and hoisted atop the rocket for flight on Friday morning. Encapsulation occurred at Cape Canaveral\u2019s Area 59 processing facility for the GPS satellites on Jan. 19. Stacking atop the Atlas […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[437,724,3784,670,2858,1808,3785,395],"class_list":["post-15747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-air-force","tag-atlas-5","tag-av-057","tag-boeing","tag-encapsulation","tag-global-positioning-system","tag-gps-2f-12","tag-navigation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15747"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}