{"id":63365,"date":"2018-12-28T17:09:03","date_gmt":"2018-12-28T09:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/spacex-launches-air-forces-gps-iii-satellite-2\/"},"modified":"2018-12-28T17:09:03","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T09:09:03","slug":"spacex-launches-air-forces-gps-iii-satellite-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/spacex-launches-air-forces-gps-iii-satellite-2\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX Launches Air Force\u2019s GPS III Satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>After prior technical difficulties, <strong>SpaceX<\/strong> launched the <strong>Lockheed Martin<\/strong>-built GPS III satellite for the <strong>U.S. Air Force. <\/strong>The satellite was launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 8:51 a.m. local time on Dec. 23 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.<\/p>\n<p>GPS III Space Vehicle 01 (GPS III SV01) is receiving and responding to commands from Lockheed Martin\u2019s Launch and Checkout Center at the company\u2019s Denver facility. Air Force and company engineers declared satellite control signal acquisition and rocket booster separation about 119 minutes after GPS III SV01\u2019s launch.<\/p>\n<p>GPS III SV01 is the first of a new, next generation Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite aiming&nbsp;to modernize the GPS constellation. According to the release, GPS III has three times better accuracy and up to eight times improved anti-jamming capabilities. GPS III\u2019s new L1C civil signal will also make it the first GPS satellite broadcasting a compatible signal with other international global navigation satellite systems, like&nbsp;Europe\u2019s&nbsp;Galileo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After prior technical difficulties, SpaceX launched the Lockheed Martin-built GPS III satellite for the U.S. Air Force. The satellite was launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 8:51 a.m. local time on Dec. 23 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. GPS III Space Vehicle 01 (GPS III SV01) is receiving and responding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63366,"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-63365","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\/63365"}],"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=63365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}