U.S. Congress Derails Funding for Space Force’s R-GPS Constellation

House subcommittee members turn down $77 million request for small sats that were supposed to make GPS more resilient.

The U.S. House Appropriations defense subcommittee says they aren’t sold on the Space Force’s plan to use small GPS satellites, dubbed Resilient GPS (R-GPS), to increase resiliency.  Before they reco…