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Space

Four Companies to Begin Design of Resilient GPS

Frank Wolfe

Tuesday, September 24th, 2024

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Four Companies to Begin Design of Resilient GPS

Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman delivers a keynote address at the Air and Space Forces Association’s Air, Space and Cyber Conference at National Harbor, Md. on Sept 17 (Department of the Air Force Photo)

Astranis, Axient, L3Harris Technologies [LHX] and Sierra Space are to submit design concepts for the Resilient Global Positioning System (R-GPS) to U.S. Space Force's Space Systems Command (SSC) to launch up to eight R-GPS satellites by 2028, the command said on Tuesday. "Following this initial phase, a subset of the awardees will continue to a Final Design Review and build payload prototypes," SSC said of the R-GPS Other Transaction Authority effort. "One or more vendors will then be selected to…

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