{"id":81440,"date":"2013-03-01T20:41:24","date_gmt":"2013-03-01T12:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/lockheed-martin-successfully-turns-on-power-of-first-gps-3-satellite\/"},"modified":"2013-03-01T20:41:24","modified_gmt":"2013-03-01T12:41:24","slug":"lockheed-martin-successfully-turns-on-power-of-first-gps-3-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/lockheed-martin-successfully-turns-on-power-of-first-gps-3-satellite\/","title":{"rendered":"Lockheed Martin Successfully Turns On Power of First GPS 3 Satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[03-01-13] <strong>Lockheed Martin<\/strong>, under contract to develop the <strong>U.S. Air Force<\/strong>\u2019s next generation Global Positioning System 3 satellites, has successfully turned on power to the system module of the program\u2019s first spacecraft, which indicates the company is on schedule for a 2014 launch.&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;The milestone is also a demonstration of the satellite\u2019s mechanical integration, which validates its interfaces and leads the way for electrical and integrated hardware-software testing. The GPS 3 Space Vehicle One (SV-1) satellite will complete its Assembly, Integration and Test (AI&amp;T) next.&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;The new GPS 3 satellites are expected to deliver better accuracy, have improved anti-jamming power, last longer, and add a new civil signal designed to be interoperable with international global navigation satellite systems. Lockheed Martin is currently under contract to produce the first four, and advanced procurement funding of long-lead components for the fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth satellites. The Air Force plans to purchase up to 32 GPS 3 satellites.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[03-01-13] Lockheed Martin, under contract to develop the U.S. Air Force\u2019s next generation Global Positioning System 3 satellites, has successfully turned on power to the system module of the program\u2019s first spacecraft, which indicates the company is on schedule for a 2014 launch.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;The milestone is also a demonstration of the satellite\u2019s mechanical integration, [&hellip;]<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-81440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81440"}],"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=81440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}