Nickle, who worked in the Air Force's space launch enterprise for more than 15 years, said the Space Force's approach to R-GPS makes it easier for smaller, non-traditional firms to be involved in ...

The satellite’s development, led by the Air Force Research ... The Space Force’s NTS-3 demonstration and its plans for Resilient GPS, or R-GPS, are part of a broader rethinking of its approach ...

With four companies, the service was able to fund the first six months of the effort, known as R-GPS. The hope is that ...

This marks the second time in recent months that the Space Force has reassigned a GPS launch from ULA to SpaceX.

The spacecraft arrived at the Cape on April 3 on a U.S. Air Force C-17. The current GPS constellation includes 31 operational spacecraft, to include GPS III SV-07, which was operationally accepted ...