The Air Force Research Laboratory's experimental satellite is set to launch into geosynchronous orbit tomorrow, more than three years after initially scheduled. Navigation Technology Satellite-3 is set to run more than 100 experiments and tests over the course of about a year with focuses on positioning, navigation and timing capabilities, said Joanna Hicks, senior research aerospace engineer for AFRL’s Space Vehicles Directorate. “With NTS-3, we are going to be experimenting with a number of different technologies that look at how...
