{"id":66722,"date":"2017-11-27T18:05:27","date_gmt":"2017-11-27T10:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/now-fully-assembled-gps-3-prepares-for-environmental-testing\/"},"modified":"2017-11-27T18:05:27","modified_gmt":"2017-11-27T10:05:27","slug":"now-fully-assembled-gps-3-prepares-for-environmental-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/now-fully-assembled-gps-3-prepares-for-environmental-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"Now Fully Assembled, GPS 3 Prepares for Environmental Testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>U.S. Air Force\u2019s<\/strong> third GPS 3 satellite (GPS 3 SV03) in production flow at <strong>Lockheed Martin\u2019s<\/strong> satellite manufacturing facility is now fully integrated into a complete space vehicle. Now fully assembled, the third satellite is being prepared to begin environmental testing.<\/p>\n<p>GPS 3 SV03 closely follows the company\u2019s second satellite in production flow. GPS 3 SV02 completed integration in May, finished acoustic testing in July and moved into thermal vacuum testing in August. Lockheed Martin expects to deliver the second GPS 3 satellite to the U.S. Air Force in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Lockheed Martin received the navigation payload for the fourth satellite, GPS 3 SV04, in October, and the payload is now integrated with the space vehicle. The company expects to integrate SV04 into a complete space vehicle in&nbsp;January 2018.<\/p>\n<p>In August, Lockheed Martin technicians began major assembly work on GPS 3 SV05. In September, the Air Force accepted and declared the first satellite, GPS 3 SV01, available for launch, with liftoff expected in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>In total, Lockheed Martin is under contract for 10 next-generation GPS 3 satellites as part of the Air Force\u2019s modernized Global Positioning System. According to the Air Force, GPS 3 will have three times better accuracy and up to eight times improved anti-jamming capabilities. Spacecraft life will extend to 15 years, 25 percent longer than the newest GPS satellites on-orbit today. GPS 3\u2019s new L1C civil signal also will make it the first GPS satellite to be interoperable with other international global navigation satellite systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Air Force\u2019s third GPS 3 satellite (GPS 3 SV03) in production flow at Lockheed Martin\u2019s satellite manufacturing facility is now fully integrated into a complete space vehicle. Now fully assembled, the third satellite is being prepared to begin environmental testing. GPS 3 SV03 closely follows the company\u2019s second satellite in production flow. GPS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63143,"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-66722","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\/66722"}],"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=66722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}