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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

People wearing white “clean suits” load a satellite.

GPS IIF

The last GPS IIF satellite is encapsulated inside a payload fairing at a processing facility before it was launched aboard an Atlas V rocket Feb. 5, 2016, at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. The mission ended a 27-year legacy of processing second generation GPS satellites for the 45th Space Wing.

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