{"id":62094,"date":"2019-07-08T17:58:02","date_gmt":"2019-07-08T09:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/lockheed-martins-2nd-gps-iii-satellite-ready-for-launch-2\/"},"modified":"2019-07-08T17:58:02","modified_gmt":"2019-07-08T09:58:02","slug":"lockheed-martins-2nd-gps-iii-satellite-ready-for-launch-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/lockheed-martins-2nd-gps-iii-satellite-ready-for-launch-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Lockheed Martin\u2019s 2nd GPS III Satellite Ready for Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lockheed Martin<\/strong> revealed that its second, next-generation GPS III satellite is ready for its planned July 25 launch.&nbsp;On June 26, Lockheed Martin Space and <strong>United Launch Alliance<\/strong> (ULA) technicians completed encapsulating GPS III Space Vehicle 02 (GPS III SV02) in its launch fairings at the company\u2019s Astrotech Space Operations facility, where the satellite has undergone pre-launch processing and fueling since its March 19 arrival in Florida. This final step enclosed GPS III SV02 in a protective, aerodynamic, nose-cone shell.<\/p>\n<p>In the coming days, the enclosed GPS III SV02 satellite will be mounted to a ULA Delta IV rocket for launch. The current window for launch on July 25 opens at 10:55 a.m. ET.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGPS III SV02 is launching just a brisk seven months after the nation\u2019s first GPS III satellite lifted off back in December. The first satellite\u2019s performance during on-orbit testing has exceeded expectations,\u201d said Johnathon Caldwell, Lockheed Martin\u2019s vice president for Navigation Systems. \u201cWe are excited to deploy more GPS III satellites so this new technology and capabilities can be distributed constellation-wide.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lockheed Martin revealed that its second, next-generation GPS III satellite is ready for its planned July 25 launch.&nbsp;On June 26, Lockheed Martin Space and United Launch Alliance (ULA) technicians completed encapsulating GPS III Space Vehicle 02 (GPS III SV02) in its launch fairings at the company\u2019s Astrotech Space Operations facility, where the satellite has undergone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62096,"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-62094","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\/62094"}],"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=62094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}