The U.S. Air Force chose Raytheon to develop a new element of the Global Positioning System (GPS), called the Advanced Control Segment (OCX), which will improve the accuracy of information from GPS satellites.
February 25, 2010
The U.S. Air Force selected Raytheon for a contract of $886 million to develop a new element of the Global Positioning [...]

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VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. – Vandenberg successfully launched a Delta II rocket from Space Launch Complex late last week.
The rocket carried WorldView-2, a high-resolution, remote-sensing satellite, into polar orbit.
With confirmation of the payload’s delivery into orbit and signal acquisition, the launch was pronounced a success.
Col. David Buck, the 30th Space Wing commander, was [...]

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EL SEGUNDO, Calif., June 25, 2009 — Boeing [NYSE: BA] has shipped a Global Positioning System (GPS) IIF satellite to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida to conduct a series of key tests for the U.S. Air Force’s next-generation satellite navigation system.
Built at Boeing’s El Segundo satellite factory, Space Vehicle 2 (SV-2) is undergoing [...]

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Eric Colburn on June 18th, 2009

Here are two news stories from yesterday and today concerning GPS that I think you might find interesting.
First, in yesterday’s news.
Some GPS devices unable to acquire satellite signal
It is being reported today that certain GPS devices stopped working on Saturday and were unable to connect to satellites.
This serious problem appears to be an isolated problem [...]

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Eric Colburn on May 21st, 2009

Houston, we have a problem…..
For over a month now there has been some chatter regarding the stability and reliability of Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites and now there is a report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) with some very disturbing news concerning the GPS system as we move into the very near future.
The [...]

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