{"id":234938,"date":"2015-10-09T10:28:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-09T14:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123460438"},"modified":"2015-10-09T10:28:00","modified_gmt":"2015-10-09T14:28:00","slug":"last-of-the-gps-iif-satellites-arrives-at-cape-canaveral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=234938","title":{"rendered":"Last of the GPS IIF satellites arrives at Cape Canaveral"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float:left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123460438\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" style=\"margin-right:15px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/shared\/media\/photodb\/thumbnails\/2015\/10\/151008-F-UT715-001.jpg\"<\/img><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The last Air Force GPS IIF in a block of 12 satellites was delivered to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, from Boeing&#8217;s manufacturing facility in El Segundo, California Oct. 8 via a C-17 Globemaster III.<\/p>\n<p>A crowd from the government and industry partnership, who will complete the satellite&#8217;s final assembly, gathered on the Cape&#8217;s &#8220;Skid Strip&#8221; to watch the off-loading of the satellite they will prepare to launch aboard a United Launch Alliance rocket in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This GPS IIF-12 satellite represents the end of a legacy as it will be the last of the 61 GPS satellites processed here at CCAFS,&#8221; said Brig. Gen. Wayne Monteith, 45th Space Wing commander. &#8220;This culminates an incredible 27-year legacy at our Area 59 Satellite Processing Facility.&nbsp; We are the Nation&#8217;s premier gateway to space and are humbled to be a part of the team that provides GPS and its capabilities to the world.&#8221;<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123460438\">more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","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-234938","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\/234938","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=234938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234938\/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=234938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=234938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=234938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}