{"id":235784,"date":"2015-10-28T01:42:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T05:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123461932"},"modified":"2015-10-28T01:42:00","modified_gmt":"2015-10-28T05:42:00","slug":"air-force-set-to-launch-next-to-last-gps-iif-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=235784","title":{"rendered":"Air Force set to launch next-to-last GPS IIF satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float:left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123461932\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" style=\"margin-right:15px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/shared\/media\/photodb\/thumbnails\/2015\/10\/151021-F-YF873-111.jpg\"<\/img><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Air Force Space Command&#8217;s Space and Missile Systems Center and its mission partners are scheduled to launch the 11th Boeing-built Global Positioning System&#8217;s GPS IIF satellite aboard a United Launch Alliance <em>Atlas V 401<\/em> launch vehicle&nbsp;Oct. 30 from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. The launch window opens at 12:17 p.m. EDT and will remain open for 19 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Ten GPS IIF satellites are currently on-orbit and meeting all mission requirements. Of the remaining satellites,&nbsp;<em>GPS IIF-11<\/em>&nbsp;is awaiting launch and <em>GPS IIF-12<\/em>, the remaining&nbsp;IIF-series satellite, is in storage awaiting&nbsp;final processing and preparation&nbsp;for launch on&nbsp;Feb. 3, 2016.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123461932\">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-235784","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\/235784","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=235784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235784\/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=235784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=235784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=235784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}