{"id":139359,"date":"2022-05-15T06:22:18","date_gmt":"2022-05-15T11:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/caci-to-launch-experimental-satellite-to-demonstrate-alternative-to-gps-navigation"},"modified":"2022-05-15T06:22:18","modified_gmt":"2022-05-15T11:22:18","slug":"caci-to-launch-experimental-satellite-to-demonstrate-alternative-to-gps-navigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/caci-to-launch-experimental-satellite-to-demonstrate-alternative-to-gps-navigation","title":{"rendered":"CACI to launch experimental satellite to demonstrate alternative to GPS navigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/caci-to-launch-experimental-satellite-to-demonstrate-alternative-to-gps-navigation3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2013 U.S. defense contractor CACI International is funding an experiment to demonstrate space technologies for military use, including an alternative to GPS navigation.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/caci-ramping-up-production-of-optical-terminals-for-low-earth-orbit-satellites\/\">company\u2019s plan<\/a> to grow its space business, CACI is launching two demonstration payloads on a York Space satellite scheduled to fly to low Earth orbit in January aboard the SpaceX <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spacelaunchschedule.com\/launch\/falcon-9-block-5-transporter-7-dedicated-sso-rideshare\/\">Transporter 7<\/a> rideshare.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re looking at an alternative PNT [positioning, navigation and timing] solution that will work in a contested space domain,\u201d CACI\u2019s president and CEO John Mengucci said during a third-quarter fiscal year 2022 earnings call.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2013 U.S. defense contractor CACI International is funding an experiment to demonstrate space technologies for military use, including an alternative to GPS navigation. As part of the company\u2019s plan to grow its space business, CACI is launching two demonstration payloads on a York Space satellite scheduled to fly to low Earth orbit in January [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,9,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-military","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139359","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\/465"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}