• GPS Block IIIF, or GPS III Follow On (GPS IIIF), is the second set of GPS Block III satellites, consisting of up to 22 space vehicles. The United States...
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    GPS Block III (previously Block IIIA) consists of the first ten GPS III satellites, which are used to keep the Navstar Global Positioning System operational...
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    The fourth GPS III satellite launched on 5 November 2020, also aboard a Falcon 9. The Block IIIF series is the second set of GPS Block III satellites...
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    launched. 3 Block III satellites have completed construction and have been declared "Available For Launch" (AFL). The next launch is GPS III SV08, currently...
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    existing system have now led to efforts to modernize the GPS and implement the next generation of GPS Block III satellites and Next Generation Operational Control...
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    Unlike for Falcon 9, the black thermal protection layer on the interstage of Block 5 center core boosters is later painted white, as seen in the Falcon Heavy...
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    IIIA satellites are used operationally by the Cospas-Sarsat System. GPS Block IIIF satellites are planned to have dedicated, operational L-band SAR payloads...
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  • mil/Newsroom/Article-Display/Article/2744342/space-systems-command-declares-three-gps-iii-space-vehicles-available-for-launch Erwin, Sandra (9 April 2024). "Northrop...
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    mil/Newsroom/Article-Display/Article/2744342/space-systems-command-declares-three-gps-iii-space-vehicles-available-for-launch Erwin, Sandra (9 April 2024). "Northrop...
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    Next Set of GPS III Satellites". GPS World. February 26, 2013. Archived from the original on December 3, 2021. Retrieved December 2, 2017. "GPS Status and...
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    and in 2016 SpaceX won a contract under the EELV program to launch a GPS Block III satellite payload to MEO. The USAF began the process of competitively...
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    from the original on 7 December 2013. Retrieved 16 July 2011. "Delta IV GPS IIIF-3". Spaceflight 101. 4 October 2012. Archived from the original on 15 July...
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    Saturn's moon Titan. NASA plans to launch Artemis 4. The first to use SLS Block 1B. Russia expects to launch the Luna 27 lunar lander in 2028. Chang'e 8...
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    GPS digital payloads". SpaceNews. Retrieved 23 February 2021. Erwin, Sandra (8 December 2023). "Experts raise concerns about U.S. commitment to GPS modernization"...
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