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Lockheed Martin GPS IIR-M Satellite Successfully Launches

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Thursday, March 26th, 2009

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A Lockheed Martin [LMT]-built modernized Global Positioning System Block IIR (GPS IIR-M) satellite, equipped with an innovative payload that will provide an on-orbit demonstration of a third civil signal, was successfully launched March 24 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. Designated GPS IIR-20(M), the satellite is the seventh in a line of eight GPS IIR satellites that Lockheed Martin Navigation Systems, Newtown, Pa., has modernized for its customer, the Global Positioning Systems Wing, Space and Missile Systems Center, Los…

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