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Last modernized GPS IIR satellite launched for the USAF

Cape Canaveral, USA - While works go on on next generation GPS III systems

A modernized Global Positioning System Block IIR satellite, designed and built by Lockheed Martin for the US Air Force (USAF) was successfully launched today from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station aboard a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta II rocket. Designated GPS IIR-21(M), the satellite is the final in a line of eight GPS IIR-M spacecraft modernized for the USAF. This series includes features...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1108288
Rome, Italy, 08/17/2009 17:19
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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