{"id":102139,"date":"2020-02-10T05:43:21","date_gmt":"2020-02-10T13:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/lockheed-martin-delivers-new-gps-satellite-scheduled-for-april-launch-aboard-falcon-9"},"modified":"2020-02-10T05:43:21","modified_gmt":"2020-02-10T13:43:21","slug":"lockheed-martin-delivers-new-gps-satellite-scheduled-for-april-launch-aboard-falcon-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/lockheed-martin-delivers-new-gps-satellite-scheduled-for-april-launch-aboard-falcon-9","title":{"rendered":"Lockheed Martin delivers new GPS satellite scheduled for April launch aboard Falcon 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/lockheed-martin-delivers-new-gps-satellite-scheduled-for-april-launch-aboard-falcon-9.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 The third satellite of the GPS 3 constellation arrived Feb. 5 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, where it will undergo final testing and checkout before its scheduled launch in April aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.<\/p>\n<p>The GPS 3 satellite was flown from Lockheed Martin\u2019s assembly line in Colorado aboard a U.S. Air Force C-17 cargo aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>In a news release on Friday, the U.S. Space Force Space and Missile Systems Center said the next steps are to prepare the GPS 3 SV-3 for propellant loading and fairing encapsulation before it\u2019s horizontally integrated with a Falcon 9 launch vehicle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 The third satellite of the GPS 3 constellation arrived Feb. 5 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, where it will undergo final testing and checkout before its scheduled launch in April aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The GPS 3 satellite was flown from Lockheed Martin\u2019s assembly line in Colorado aboard a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}