GPS III SV01 deployment

The first Global Positioning System III space vehicle (GPS III SV01) was successfully deployed to a medium Earth orbit approximately 1 hour and 58 minutes after being launched by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, on 23 December 2018, at 13:51 UTC (08:51 EST). GPS III SV01 is United States Air Force’s first Global Positioning System III space vehicle (SV). Due to mission requirements, SpaceX did not attempted to land Falcon 9’s first