The US GPS III satellite weighing 3.8 tons has become the eighth -generation policy, which has been launched since 2018.
The Falcon 9 launch vehicle on Friday brought to the orbit of a satellite of the third -generation GPS III positioning system for the US Air Force. This was announced the night before the Spacex carrier developer.
“The end of the government policy has been confirmed,” the report said.
The launch of the rocket was carried out from the -40s starting complicated based on the American space forces in Cape Canverral in Florida at 13:23 on the east coast of the United States (at 20:23 in KYIV).
A satellite, an hour and a half after the launch, was brought to an orbit with a height of more than 1000 kilometers above the ground. Then he was able to enter the average near -earth orbit nearly 20 thousand km tall.
At the same time, the first available step of the Falcon 9 missile, used in the fourth hour, 8.5 minutes after the launch, conducted a vertical landing on the automatic floating platform of a lack of gravitas in the Atlantic ocean.
The US GPS III satellite of the US Air Force weighing 3.8 tons has become the eighth policy of a new generation launched since 2018, and the next element in the American orbital grouping of 32 devices that provides GPS signal worldwide.
GPS III satellites have more signal strength, giving you to determine the location of civilian objects three times more accurately than the devices used today, with accuracy from 3 to 10 meters.
At the same time, GPS III has significantly improved the capabilities to combat disruption compared to previous devices.
Currently, the services of the GPS system, the operator of which is the US Air Force, uses more than 4 billion people.
Lockheed Martin Corporation is engaged in the manufacture of satellites. The cost of a satellite is $ 577 million. Satellite life is 15 years.
Liftoff! pic.twitter.com/vyuvs2zw7j
– Spacex (@spacex) May 30, 2025
The first stage of Falcon 9 has reached the lack of gravitas dronehip pic.twitter.com/mzicvuqhoc
– Spacex (@spacex) May 30, 2025
Remember, on May 28, the Spacex Ilona Mask of Starship Missile disappeared during the Ninth Test Launch. The extra heavy accelerator broke, and the ship could not accomplish all the tasks.
Spacex launched two missiles in six hours
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