Boeing has completed ground tests on the Global Positioning Systems (GPS) 2F satellite, which concluded that the satellite is on track to meet the U.S. Air Force‘s current launch commitments, Boeing announced Nov. 4.
   The satellite also completed a consolidated systems test, which is a set of onetime, system-level design verification and validation tests involving the space vehicle, the ground-based control segment and user equipment.
   GPS-2F’s space vehicle returned to Boeing’s El Segundo facility on Sept. 3 to prepare for environmental vacuum testing.
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