Lockheed Martin has joined an organization that aims to promote awareness of global positioning system technology applications.

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The U.S. Space Force has issued an operational acceptance certification for the second Lockheed Martin-developed GPS III satellite containing updates to its contingency controls.

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Johnathon Caldwell, vice president of navigation systems at Lockheed Martin, told GPS World in an interview published Monday about the on-orbit performance of the first GPS III satellite the company built for the U.S. Air Force. “On Jan. 8 we began broadcasting navigation data across all signal chains, and the satellite has been in checkout mode since then,” Caldwell said of GPS III SV01, which launched in December.

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The first GPS III satellite that Lockheed Martin built for the U.S. Air Force took off Sunday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket. GPS III Space Vehicle 01 established communications with the defense contractor’s launch-and-checkout facility in Denver nearly two hours after launch, Lockheed said Sunday. “In the coming days, GPS […] More

Johnathon Caldwell, vice president of navigation systems at Lockheed Martin’s space business, confirmed that the second GPS III satellite will continue on-orbit testing before joining the U.S. Air Force’s GPS constellation, GPS World reported Tuesday.

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The U.S. Air Force has received updated position, navigation and timing software from Lockheed Martin to help modernize the service's ground control system for GPS III satellites.

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Lockheed Martin transported the U.S. Air Force’s second GPS III space vehicle from a processing facility in Colorado to Cape Canaveral AF Base in Florida.

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The Space Development Agency has completed an orbital insertion of 13 satellites from Lockheed Martin, SpaceX and York Space Systems, marking the second launch under an initiative to demonstrate missile warning and tracking capabilities for the U.S. military. SDA said Saturday’s Tranche 0 Transport Layer mission took off at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California […] More

The Space Development Agency completed an orbital insertion of 13 satellites from Lockheed Martin, SpaceX and York Space Systems on Saturday, marking the second launch for SDA's Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture initiative to demonstrate missile warning and tracking capabilities for the U.S. military. More

The Space Development Agency completed an orbital insertion of 13 satellites from Lockheed Martin, SpaceX and York Space Systems on Saturday, marking the second launch for SDA's Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture initiative to demonstrate missile warning and tracking capabilities for the U.S. military. More

Lockheed Martin unveiled a 20,000-square-foot manufacturing site that will be used to assemble small satellite programs and technologies. The company announced Friday the facility at its Waterton, Colorado, will help expedite the delivery of Tranche 1 Transport Layer satellites to the Space Development Agency. Lockheed is currently working to complete more than 50 Transport Layer […] More

Lockheed Martin has started final qualification testing of ground control system updates meant to help U.S. Air Force personnel fly a Global Positioning Systems 3 satellite, C4ISRNET reported Friday.

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