{"id":210836,"date":"2025-04-08T06:03:30","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T11:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/space-force-reassigns-gps-satellite-launch-from-ula-to-spacex"},"modified":"2025-04-08T06:03:30","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T11:03:30","slug":"space-force-reassigns-gps-satellite-launch-from-ula-to-spacex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/space-force-reassigns-gps-satellite-launch-from-ula-to-spacex","title":{"rendered":"Space Force reassigns GPS satellite launch from ULA to SpaceX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/space-force-reassigns-gps-satellite-launch-from-ula-to-spacex.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>COLORADO SPRINGS \u2014 The U.S. Space Force is transferring the launch of a GPS satellite from United Launch Alliance (ULA) to SpaceX in an effort to reduce a backlog of satellites waiting in storage.<\/p>\n<p>The GPS III SV-08 satellite, the eighth in the GPS III constellation, is now scheduled to launch no earlier than late May aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, the Space Systems Command announced April 7.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/space-force-assigns-12-national-security-missions-to-spacex-and-ula\/\">This marks the second time<\/a> in recent months that the Space Force has reassigned a GPS launch from ULA to SpaceX. Last year, the GPS III SV-07 satellite was moved from a planned ULA Vulcan rocket launch in late 2025 to a SpaceX Falcon 9, which successfully launched on December 16 in a mission called Rapid Response Trailblazer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COLORADO SPRINGS \u2014 The U.S. Space Force is transferring the launch of a GPS satellite from United Launch Alliance (ULA) to SpaceX in an effort to reduce a backlog of satellites waiting in storage. The GPS III SV-08 satellite, the eighth in the GPS III constellation, is now scheduled to launch no earlier than late [\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-210836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210836","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=210836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}