The Global Positioning System (GPS) achieved full-operational capability July 17, 1995, and as the U.S. Air Force celebrated this anniversary, AEDC engineers also reflected on the Complex’s role in the testing and development of the system.
The final acceptance and qualification tests for the Navstar GPS were completed in the Mark I space chamber at AEDC in 1977. Testing for GPS continued at AEDC into the mid-to-late 1980s, when thermal qualification and engineering design tests on a prototype of the Block II Navstar GPS satellite. Since that time life extension review and certification of systems has also taken place at the Complex.
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AEDC personnel reflect on Complex’s support of GPS
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