SpaceX Delivers 4th GPS-III Satellite to Orbit

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November 6, 2020
Michael Howard
GPS-III SV04 (Sacagawea) launches atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Photo credit: Michael Seeley / We Report Space.
GPS-III SV04 (Sacagawea) launches atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Photo credit: Michael Seeley / We Report Space.

Cape Canaveral A.F.S. FL. – Liftoff! On November 5, 2020, SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket lifted off at 6:24 PM EST from Launch Complex 40 with the GPS III satellite. 

 GPS-III launch as seen from Cape Canaveral. Photo credit: Michael Howard / We Report Space

Shortly after launch, the first stage booster landed successfully down range on the recovery ship “OCISLY”. The GPS III series of satellites built by Lockheed Martin first launched in 2018 and the series should be completed in 2023, with at least two more contracted to fly aboard SpaceX launch vehicles. 


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