leaderboard left
Find great deals on gps at BizRate!
leaderboard right
content topleft content topright

New GPS Satellite Launched - GPS 2R-M1

Sep
27
2005

A Boeing Delta II rocket launched yesterday with some important cargo for GPS users, a new Lockheed Martin GPS 2R-M1 (IIR-14) GPS satellite. The new satellite is the first of eight new satellites that will soon go into orbit built by Lockheed Martin.

Improvements to signal power to ground receivers, new military signals with improved accuracy, a new civil signal are among the improvements. The military will also get additional encryption and anti-jamming capabilities.

Located in GPS, GPS System, GPS Technology on Sep 27, 2005

One Comment

  1. [...] Recently, a new GPS satellite was put into orbit. This satellite is capable of broadcasting not only on the L1 (L1C) frequency, but also a new L2 frequency. (L2C actually, the C denoting civilian). The L2 broadcasts are on 1227.5 MHz. (Note I’ve also seen references to it being on 1227.60). [...]

    Understanding L2C ( L2 ) GPS - GPS Review - April 30th, 2006

Leave Your Track

Comments will be displayed directly on this page for everyone to view. Please make sure your comment/review is relevant to this page. If you wish to share something directly with us you may contact us. You can be notified of further comments by checking the box at the bottom of the form. We reserve the right to delete or edit any comments.

Unfortunately, please refrain from posting pricing or store information as we've had trouble with vendors trying to advertise through comments, disguised to look like regular users. Feel free to post that info in the forums, but not here.

There is no need to "sign" your comment, your name will be automatically attached.

content bottomleft content bottomright