{"id":218845,"date":"2014-01-22T18:12:36","date_gmt":"2014-01-22T22:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123377523"},"modified":"2014-01-22T18:12:36","modified_gmt":"2014-01-22T22:12:36","slug":"satellite-battery-modification-expected-to-add-27-more-years-of-life-to-gps-iiriir-m-fleet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=218845","title":{"rendered":"Satellite Battery Modification Expected to Add 27 More Years of Life to GPS IIR\/IIR-M Fleet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since October 2012, U.S. Air Force Space Command&#8217;s Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) has been analyzing, characterizing, testing and implementing modified battery charge control rates across the GPS IIR\/IIR-M fleet. This fleet of 19 satellites comprises more than half of the Global Positioning System (GPS) constellation. As of Nov. 15, 2013, the USAF&#8217;s 2nd Space Operations Squadron (2SOPS) completed the modification, which will extend the life of these satellites&#8217; operational capability.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123377523\">more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since October 2012, U.S. Air Force Space Command&#8217;s Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) has been analyzing, characterizing, testing and implementing modified battery charge control rates across the GPS IIR\/IIR-M fleet. This fleet of 19 satellites com&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-air-force-space-command"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=218845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=218845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=218845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=218845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}