6th Modernized Gps Satellite Successfully Launched17/03/2008 |
| A U.S. Air Force modernized Global Positioning System Block IIR (GPS IIR-M) satellite, built by Lockheed Martin, was successfully launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station aboard a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta II launch vehicle. |
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The satellite, designated GPS IIR-19M, is the sixth in a line of eight GPS IIR satellites that Lockheed Martin Navigation System has modernized for its customer, the Global Positioning Systems Wing, Space and Missile Systems Center.
Each IIR-M satellite includes a modernized antenna panel that provides increased signal power to receivers on the ground, two new military signals for improved accuracy, enhanced encryption and anti-jamming capabilities for the military, and a second civil signal that will provide users with an open access signal on a different frequency.
Read more about: Positioning Website: http://www.lockheedmartin.com/products/GPS Supplier: Lockheed Martin More news from this supplier: Collaboration on Underwater Inspection Vehicle Lockheed Martin Completes In-Water Testing of Sonar Array Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion Technology Submarine Imaging System for US Navy Multi-function Towed Arrays for U.S. Navy Another Modernized GPS Satellite Launched Safer Sea-borne Crew Transfer System New GPS Satellite Operational Remote Multi-Mission Vehicle Delivery GPS III Space Segment Development Offshore Survey Frame Agreement ROV Survey of the Costa Concordia Grounding Site (video) 44 PMGS Transponders for Earthquake and Tsunami Research Underwater Vision to Fugro Subsea Services Award for Brazilian Hydrographic Paper Demonstrating a 'Deeper Understanding' First Real-Time Seafloor Earthquake Observatory Theme of Hydrography Day 2012: International Cooperation Finistère and Mediterranean Bathymetric Lidar Surveys Precise Positioning For BP Vessels 
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