On Feb. 3, the Air Force plans to launch the 12th, and last, satellite in the Block IIF series of modernized GPS spacecraft. The Air Force has produced 12 IIF satellites, featuring new clocks, new ...

The latest GPS Block IIF satellite, IIF-5 or SVN64 (operating as PRN30), was launched on February 21, 2014. Typically, GPS satellites are checked out and made operational within about a month ...

Bernard Gruber, GPS director at SMC ... who built not only this Block IIF satellite, SVN-65, but also the Block IIA it replaced. "SVN-65 brings increased capability to the warfighter and replaces ...

(Credit: United Launch Alliance) The last GPS Block IIF satellite built by the Boeing Co. was sent into orbit for the U.S. Air Force today, filling out a set of a dozen. United Launch Alliance ...

The GPS IIF-12, scheduled for a Feb. 5 launch, will the twelfth and final satellite in the Block IIF group that's been operating since 2010, and the final GPS II launch, which has been sending ...

The GPS Block IIF satellites are built by Boeing ... 24 hours a day in all weather conditions. Every modern GPS satellite has been launched from CCAFS.

“The 45th Space Wing, Space and Missile Systems Center, GPS Wing, Boeing and United Launch Alliance team are proud to launch the first installment of the GPS Block IIF,” said Col Andre ...

Aerojet, a GenCorp (NYSE:GY) company, announced today that its engines contributed to the successful launch of the first Global Positioning System (GPS) Block IIF satellite. Aerojet will continue ...

Boeing builds the GPS Block IIF satellite for the Air Force, which operates them once they are in space. The GPS IIF is an interim class of GPS satellite. The purpose of the Block IIF is to keep ...

The satellite is the seventh of twelve planned ... so are being replaced by a set of interim Block IIF satellites. The GPS Block IIF satellites are interim class of satellites intended to provide ...

SpaceX previously launched the maiden GPS Block III satellite, SV01 ... IIR, IIR-M, and IIF. Each series boasted several upgrades over the previous, often involving new signals or increased ...

This morning, the United Launch Alliance (ULA) successfully launched a Boeing-built satellite into orbit as part of the U.S. Air Force’s Global Positioning System (GPS). This $131 million ...