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Payload Enhances Latest Generation Of GPS Satellites
(17 March 2008) ITT Corporation
announced today its contribution to the latest U.S. Air Force Global
Positioning Satellite to join the constellation.
The GPS
IIR-19(M) satellite, built by a team led by Lockheed Martin, was launched from
Cape Canaveral aboard a Delta II rocket. This satellite is the sixth member of
the modernised Block IIR-M and the nineteenth IIR overall.
Its ITT
payload features a number of important improvements over earlier generations
including two new signals: one civil (designated L2C) and the other military
(called M-code). Block IIR-M satellites also feature higher output
power.
"ITT is proud to be on the cutting edge of payload technology
used on the Block IIR-M satellites," said Chris Young, president of ITT Space
Systems Division. "Every GPS satellite has featured an ITT payload-a span
stretching more than 30 years-and we'll continue to create new innovations for
future launches."
(source: ITT Corporation)
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