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Lockheed Martin Delivers Eighth GPS-III Satellite, Launch In Late May

By Cal Biesecker

Monday, April 7th, 2025

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Lockheed Martin Delivers Eighth GPS-III Satellite, Launch In Late May

Lockheed Martin workers loading the GPS III Space Vehicle 08 into a container before shipping it to Florida earlier this month. Photo: Lockheed Martin

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.—Lockheed Martin [LMT] last Thursday delivered the eighth GPS-III satellite for processing at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station to in preparation for a launch no earlier than the end of May aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, demonstrating a second consecutive accelerated mission for the program, the company and Space Force said on Monday. The Space Force said the upcoming National Security Space Launch (NSSL) GPS III-7 mission demonstrates the rapid ability to go from pulling Space Vehicle…

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