{"id":83030,"date":"2012-06-02T00:36:38","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T16:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/lockheed-martin-inks-68-million-gps-3-deal\/"},"modified":"2012-06-02T00:36:38","modified_gmt":"2012-06-01T16:36:38","slug":"lockheed-martin-inks-68-million-gps-3-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/lockheed-martin-inks-68-million-gps-3-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Lockheed Martin Inks $68 Million GPS 3 Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[06-01-12] <b>Lockheed Martin<\/b> has been awarded a $68 million contract from the <b>U.S. Air Force<\/b> to provide mission readiness, launch, early orbit checkout and on-orbit operations engineering support for the first two GPS 3 spacecraft, the company announced May 31.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp;Lockheed Martin will provide technical support to the Air Force\u2019s 2nd Space Operations Squadron (2SOPS) and monitor the health and performance of the first two GPS 3 satellites through their 15-year operational life cycles. The deal also contracts Lockheed Martin to provide the launch and checkout functionality required to meet availability for the first satellite in 2014.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;The first and second GPS 2 satellites will be available for launch in 2014 and 2015, respectively.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;\u201cThe GPS 3 flight operations contract, along with launch and checkout capability, will better synchronize our GPS control and space segments to support the first launch of a GPS 3 satellite and ensure mission success,\u201d U.S. Air Force Capt. and GPS 3 Launch Operations Lead Alex Rawling said in a statement. \u201cWe are focused on delivering the critical GPS 3 capabilities to users as efficiently and affordably as possible.\u201d<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[06-01-12] Lockheed Martin has been awarded a $68 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to provide mission readiness, launch, early orbit checkout and on-orbit operations engineering support for the first two GPS 3 spacecraft, the company announced May 31. &nbsp; &nbsp;Lockheed Martin will provide technical support to the Air Force\u2019s 2nd Space Operations Squadron [&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-83030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83030"}],"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=83030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}