WASHINGTON — The Space Force today announced that SpaceX, rather than United Launch Alliance (ULA), will provide the upcoming launch of the final satellite in the Global Position System (GPS) III series.
GPS III SV-10 now will lift off on a Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral, Fla., no later than the end of April, Space Systems Command (SSC) said.
The change up follows the service’s late February decision to ground ULA’s heavy-lift Vulcan-Centaur under the National Security Space Launch (NSSL) program, due to persistent problems with the nozzles on its solid rocket boosters.
“With this change, we are answering the call for rapid delivery of advanced GPS capability while the Vulcan anomaly investigation continues. We are once again demonstrating our team’s…
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