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Space Force Launches Seventh GPS III, As Others Await Vulcan Certification

Space Force Launches Seventh GPS III, As Others Await Vulcan Certification
U.S. Space Force said that it launched the seventh GPS III satellite aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Fla. on Monday (Lockheed Martin Photo)

U.S. Space Force launched the seventh Lockheed Martin [LMT] Global Positioning System III (GPS III) satellite aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on Monday night from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Fla., in a "first-of-its-kind," rapid response National Security Space Launch (NSSL)"--a Rapid Response Trailblazer (RRT)-- in "less than five months from conception to launch," Space Systems Command (SSC) said on Tuesday. "The mission successfully demonstrated a complex integration effort across multiple Space Force organizations to pull an existing GPS…

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