A cadre of military and industry workers at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station is readying the first-of-its-kind satellite for the Global Positioning System, an advanced bird that will be shipped to the launch pad and bolted atop a Delta 4 rocket n...

Three more Glonass navigation satellites were dispatched to space Monday March 15th, ensuring the network continues providing positioning services to Russian territory as officials seek to expand it to global coverage.

A Chinese Long March rocket hauled a new navigation satellite to a high-altitude perch over Earth on Saturday, marking the first space launch of the year for the world's space programs.

Flying for the 350th time, a Proton rocket launched three new satellites for Russia's space navigation network Monday December 14th to ensure the system continues providing coverage of its home territory.

A Global Positioning System satellite launched in March is suffering from permanent signal distortions and will miss its target to enter operational service this year, Air Force officials said november 2nd.

The GPS 2R-21 spacecraft will replace a long-lived satellite in the navigation constellation, taking over Plane E, Slot 3 occupied by the GPS 2A-26 craft launched in July 1996 that's lasted nearly twice its design life.

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The U.S. Air Force successfully launched the seventh modernized Global Positioning System IIR-M satellite carried aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta II Rocket at 4:34 a.m. EDT March 24 from Space Launch Complex 17A at Cape Canaveral Air Force Stat...

Russia put three Glonass navigation satellites into orbit on December 25 from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan and are now up to 20 satellites, lacking 4 to become fully operational.

A Russian Proton rocket carrying three GLONASS satellites successfully lifted off Sep 25th from Baikonur, Kazakhstan, and all three satellites are operating nominally under ground control.

An experimental Air Force satellite designed to monitor the Earth's ionosphere and foresee impending communication and navigation disruptions was successfully deployed into space Wednesday April 16th by an Orbital Sciences air-launched Pegasus rocket

The third-generation GPS satellite is about 6 feet by 34 feet and weighs roughly 4,500 pounds. The AP noted, The GPS satellite has a life expectancy of about 8 1/2 years, though the equipment it is replacing is more than 15 years old.