Battery modification to add 27 more years of life to GPS IIR/IIR-M fleet
Submit on Thursday, January 23rd, 2014 22:56
Since October 2012, U.S. Air Force Space Command’s Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) has been analysing, characterising, testing and implementing modified battery charge control rates across the GPS IIR/IIR-M fleet. As of 15 November 2013, the USAF’s 2nd Space Operations Squadron (2SOPS) completed the modification, which will extend the life of these satellites’ operational capability.
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