With planned GPS launch, Space Force turns again to SpaceX amid ULA Vulcan issues

Once again, the Space Force is turning to SpaceX to get its national security hardware into space with a GPS satellite launch planned in the overnight hours early Tuesday.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 is aiming to lift off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station's Space Launch Complex 40 during a 15-minute window that opens at 2:53 a.m. Eastern time on the GPS III-8 mission, headed to medium-Earth orbit.