{"id":214994,"date":"2025-05-29T09:09:36","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T14:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/space-force-orders-two-more-gps-iiif-satellites-for-509-7-million"},"modified":"2025-05-29T09:09:36","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T14:09:36","slug":"space-force-orders-two-more-gps-iiif-satellites-for-509-7-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/space-force-orders-two-more-gps-iiif-satellites-for-509-7-million","title":{"rendered":"Space Force orders two more GPS IIIF satellites for $509.7 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/space-force-orders-two-more-gps-iiif-satellites-for-509-7-million.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 The U.S. Space Force has ordered two additional Global Positioning System satellites from Lockheed Martin. The $509.7 million contract covers GPS III satellites 21 and 22, which are part of the advanced GPS III Follow-on constellation designed to provide enhanced positioning, navigation and timing services to both civilian and military users worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>Delivery of the two satellites is scheduled by 2031, according to a contract announcement May 28.<\/p>\n<p>The order was placed under an <a href=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/space-force-orders-three-gps-satellites-for-744-million\/\">existing 2018 contract<\/a> that allows for up to 22 spacecraft. With this procurement, the Space Force has now exercised options for 12 satellites, bringing the total value of the contract to $4.1 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 The U.S. Space Force has ordered two additional Global Positioning System satellites from Lockheed Martin. The $509.7 million contract covers GPS III satellites 21 and 22, which are part of the advanced GPS III Follow-on constellation designed to provide enhanced positioning, navigation and timing services to both civilian and military users worldwide. Delivery [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214994","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=214994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}