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Space

Some GPS Launches Awaiting Vulcan Certification

Frank Wolfe

Thursday, November 21st, 2024

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Some GPS Launches Awaiting Vulcan Certification

Pictured is the sixth GPS III satellite before launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Fla. on Jan. 18, 2023

The U.S. Space Force has launched six Lockheed Martin [LMT] GPS III satellites, and the company has been storing four GPS IIIs in Littleton, Colo. The 31-satellite GPS constellation "is healthy, which helps from a launch perspective," Lt. Gen. Philip Garrant, the commander of the Space Force Space Systems Command, told a Defense Writers Group breakfast on Thursday. "There are several GPS launches tied to a Vulcan manifest. Obviously, that will wait on certification. We will not launch a GPS…

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