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The U.S. Air Force awarded a $6 million contract to Lockheed Martin to develop and demonstrate a payload that will temporarily transmit a third civil signal, on the L5 from a Block IIR-M satellite.
Previous plans called for the L5 civil signal, aimed principally at safety requirements in civil aviation, to appear on later Block IIF satellites. This could indicate that the US Air Force may be looking either to undertake signal testing before the IIFs are launched, or to secure the frequency according to ITU requirements, as GIOVE-A did for Galileo.
EU Watch will continue to monitor developments
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