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GPS III: Satellite transported to Cape Canaveral AFS, Florida

Space Systems Command

Sept. 11, 2018 | 3:13

The Chinese have a famous proverb: 千里之行，始於足下 which is pronounced "Qiānlǐ zhī xíng, shǐyú zú xià" -- or, more commonly in English, "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." It teaches us that even the longest and most difficult ventures have a starting point; something which begins with one "first" step.

Technical Sgt. Justin Perran, a Joint Terminal Air Controller at Buckley Air Force Base, and Dreux Zimmer, a Logistics Management Specialist from the Space and Missile Systems Center's Global Positioning Systems Directorate, describes how the first GPS III satellite, SV-01 (also known as "Vespucci" in honor of Amerigo Vespucci, the Italian explorer for whom the Americas were named), began its first step in what will ultimately be a journey of hundreds of millions of miles over its long service life in orbit above us -- from Colorado to Cape Canaveral in preparation for its mid-December launch.

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