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Lockheed Martin Delivers GPS III Antenna Assemblies For Integration

Thursday, July 18th, 2013

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Lockheed Martin [LMT] has completed, and is preparing to install, the navigation, communication and hosted payload antenna assemblies for the first satellite of the next generation Global Positioning System (GPS) III constellation, according to a company statement. Seven antenna assemblies were delivered to Lockheed Martin’s GPS III processing facility near Denver on June 14. Lockheed Martin spokesman Chip Eschenfelder said the company expects to start integrating the antennas with the first GPS III space vehicle early next year. The first…

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