Here at the 45th Space Wing, the “World’s Premier Gateway to Space,” a new generation of Global Position System satellite, GPS IIF, is getting ready to join the constellation.
Getting the payload on orbit might sound like the hard part, but the testing and processing that happens at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station is a tediously important step.
When the satellite arrives via aircraft it is carefully offloaded and delivered to the main bay at Area 59 on Cape Canaveral. The primary Air Force responsible engineer 2nd Lt. Thomas Shields, and his teammates get ready to run a series of tests and procedures to ensure that satellite will perform correctly on orbit.
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