USSF Reassigns Fourth GPS III Launch From ULA To SpaceX

With Artemis II Back on the Launch Pad, What's Next?  NASA image prospect: https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/6903870/6903870~large.jpg?w=1905&h=1920&fit=clip&crop=faces%2Cfocalpoint   HOUSTON -- With the fully stacked Artemis II Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion crew capsule back on the launch pad atop their Mobile Launch Platform at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on Mar. 20 for the planned April 1 launch of four NASA and Canadian Space Agency astronauts on a 10-day mission around the Moon, there i

SpaceX launches the GPS III-9 mission on Jan. 27 from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral SFS.

Credit: SpaceX
The U.S. Space Force is shifting a GPS III launch from United Launch Alliance (ULA) Vulcan rockets to the SpaceX Falcon fleet for the fourth time. The service’s GPS III-8 mission was originally due to launch on a ULA Vulcan heavy-lift launch vehicle. But it will now launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9...
Vivienne Machi

Vivienne Machi is the military space editor for Aviation Week based in Los Angeles.

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