Lockheed Martin GPS III

The spacecraft was launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 7:52 p.m. EST from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral.

The Santa Clara, California-based company makes interferometric fiber optic gyroscopes for inertial navigation in GPS-denied areas.

The weapon has been designed under contract through a recently completed 2023 UK Defense Ministry contract.

The prototypes will seek new devices for Inertial sensing and magnetic sensing, plus advances in photonic systems and laser components used by quantum devices.

GPS has become a household term over the last 50 years. Over the coming decades, it is likely to be subsumed into another three-letter term, PNT.

Over 50 years, GPS has evolved and inspired the development of similar systems by other nations.

How much has GPS boosted U.S. businesses? The answer is astronomical.

The FAA released a warning to operators last week of higher GPS spoofing activity affecting commercial aircraft on airways near the Iranian borders.

The U.S. Space Force’s top planning division is starting to look at the next generation of precision navigation and timing capabilities from orbit.