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years.Some officers began calling the satellite, officially known as satellite vehicle #14, “sweetheart” because it was launched on Valentine’s Day.But now it is known as Elvis because the control center crews decided GPS satellites should be named after dead rock stars. The next GPS satellite, scheduled for launch in April, will be dubbed Janis.The satellite passed one milestone last week, when the 1st Satellite Control Squadron deemed it healthy and forwarded ground control operations to 2nd Satellite Control Squadron crews in the GPS Master Control Station in CSOC.A new navigation satellite has become the darling of crews at Falcon Air Force Base since its successful launch two weeks ago.The 3,675-pound satellite orbiting about 11,000 nautical miles above the Earth has boosted morale in two windowless, well-locked control rooms at the Consolidated Space Operations Center, where crews monitor it at computer consoles.The Global Positioning System sat ellite is the first satellite that has been controlled at CSOC from launch It is also the first of 21 operational GPS satellites that will be launched over the next several
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Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph
Colorado Springs, Colorado, US
Tue, Feb 28, 1989
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