{"id":82412,"date":"2012-09-25T23:42:04","date_gmt":"2012-09-25T15:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/lockheed-martin-meets-first-gps-2-space-vehicle-1-delivery-milestone\/"},"modified":"2012-09-25T23:42:04","modified_gmt":"2012-09-25T15:42:04","slug":"lockheed-martin-meets-first-gps-2-space-vehicle-1-delivery-milestone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/lockheed-martin-meets-first-gps-2-space-vehicle-1-delivery-milestone\/","title":{"rendered":"Lockheed Martin Meets First GPS 2 Space Vehicle 1 Delivery Milestone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[09-25-12] <b>Lockheed Martin<\/b> has delivered the propulsion core module for the first <b>U.S. Air Force<\/b> Global Positioning System 2 spacecraft to the company\u2019s GPS Processing Facility (GPF) in Denver, the company confirmed Sept. 25.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp;The propulsion core includes the integrated propulsion system and serves as the structural backbone of the satellite. The delivery marks the GPS program\u2019s first milestone for the GPS 2 Space Vehicle 1, as well as the beginning of the satellite\u2019s initial assembly, integration and test activities for the GPF.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;\u201cThe delivery of the propulsion core demonstrates that this program is on firm footing and poised to deliver on its commitments,\u201d U.S. Air Force GPS 3 Program Manager Lt. Col. Todd Caldwell said in a statement. \u201cIn this challenging budget environment, we are focused on efficient program execution to deliver critical new capabilities to GPS users worldwide.\u201d<br \/>\nThe GPS 3 program aims to replace aging GPS satellites and help meet the evolving demands of military, commercial, and civilian users with better accuracy, improved anti-jamming power, enhanced design life, and a new civil signal designed to be interoperable with international global navigation satellite systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[09-25-12] Lockheed Martin has delivered the propulsion core module for the first U.S. Air Force Global Positioning System 2 spacecraft to the company\u2019s GPS Processing Facility (GPF) in Denver, the company confirmed Sept. 25. &nbsp; &nbsp;The propulsion core includes the integrated propulsion system and serves as the structural backbone of the satellite. The delivery marks [&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-82412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82412"}],"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=82412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}