SpaceX recently launched a new GPS III satellite that had originally been delayed since April. The launch took place this week from Cape Canaveral in Florida and SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket ...

Next-generation GPS satellite launched. A Boeing Delta 2 rocket carries the first of a new generation of Global Positioning System satellites into space.

A GPS III satellite stands tall at Lockheed Martin's Littleton, Colorado, facility, in May 2018, a year and a half before its launch into orbit. The striped elements on top are antennas, ...

By the time it comes online within the next five years, there should be a constellation of 32 new GPS III satellites in orbit. 1 comment 180 likes and shares. Share this article: ...

The first GPS III satellite launched by Lockheed Martin cost an estimated $529 million to build. And with nine more satellites planned, the GPS III project will climb to a whopping $5.5 billion ...

SpaceX launched a new GPS satellite to orbit for the US military, continuing an effort to bolster a constellation of global positioning and navigation satellites that underpin smartphone apps ...

But several of the 30 GPS satellites making up the active constellation are well beyond their design lives, including some that are "old enough to vote and drink," insiders joke.

The Space Force has around 31 operational GPS satellites in orbit, a mix of modern and older spacecraft providing varying levels of capability. The newest satellites, dubbed GPS III, are built by ...

The mission carried the sixth spacecraft in a new generation of GPS satellites, called GPS III, to an orbit about 12,550 miles (20,200 km) above the Earth’s surface, where more than 30 GPS ...