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Air Force

Air Force Set To Launch GPS IIF-4 Tonight

Wednesday, May 15th, 2013

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Air Force Set To Launch GPS IIF-4 Tonight

The Air Force is set to launch the fourth Global Positioning System (GPS) IIF satellite (GPS IIF-4) tonight between 5:35 p.m. and 5:58 p.m. EDT from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. Boeing's GPS IIF satellite. Photo: Boeing. GPS IIF-4 will launch upon one of United Launch Alliance’s (ULA) Atlas V rockets to lift the precision, navigation and timing (PNT) satellite into orbit. The Air Force successfully launched GPS IIF-3 in October, despite a launch anomaly that the service is still investigating.…

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