{"id":58010,"date":"2021-02-25T01:56:02","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T17:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/l3harris-contracted-for-4-mission-data-units-for-gps-iiif-satellites\/"},"modified":"2021-02-25T01:56:02","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T17:56:02","slug":"l3harris-contracted-for-4-mission-data-units-for-gps-iiif-satellites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/l3harris-contracted-for-4-mission-data-units-for-gps-iiif-satellites\/","title":{"rendered":"L3Harris Contracted for 4 Mission Data Units for GPS IIIF Satellites"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lockheed Martin<\/strong> has awarded <strong>L3Harris Technologies<\/strong> contracts totaling $137 million for four navigation payload Mission Data Units (MDU) for future GPS III Follow-on (GPS IIIF) satellites.<\/p>\n<p>Lockheed Martin is the prime contractor for the GPS III and GPS IIIF satellites for the <b>U.S. Department of Defense<\/b>. GPS IIIF is the next phase of the military\u2019s GPS satellites, and will have a fully digital navigation payload, and a search and rescue payload. In 2018, Lockheed selected L3Harris to design and build the first two fully-digital MDUs, which generate more powerful GPS signals and assures clock operations for GPS users.<\/p>\n<p>L3Harris has provided navigation technology for every U.S. GPS satellite ever launched. The GPS IIIF MDU will provide improved capabilities over L3Harris\u2019 MDU on the first ten GPS III satellites, which is 70% digital.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe digital MDU is flexible enough to adapt to advances in GPS technology and future changes in mission needs,\u201d commented Ed Zoiss, president of Space and Airborne Systems for L3Harris. \u201cThe new MDU will also support a smooth transition for the U.S. Space Force\u2019s GPS OCX ground control segment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Space Force expects the first GPS IIIF satellite to be available for launch in 2026. Four GPS III satellites have been successfully launched, the most recent GPS III launch was by <b>SpaceX<\/b> in November 2020. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lockheed Martin has awarded L3Harris Technologies contracts totaling $137 million for four navigation payload Mission Data Units (MDU) for future GPS III Follow-on (GPS IIIF) satellites. Lockheed Martin is the prime contractor for the GPS III and GPS IIIF satellites for the U.S. Department of Defense. GPS IIIF is the next phase of the military\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58011,"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":[],"class_list":["post-58010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58010"}],"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=58010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}