SAN FRANCISCO — Lockheed Martin engineers, preparing to build as many as 32 next-generation GPS 3 satellites for the U.S. Air Force, will spend the next several months focusing on completing the development of spacecraft components and integrating them onto a satellite that is not intended to fly.

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Debra Werner is a correspondent for SpaceNews based in San Francisco. Debra earned a bachelor’s degree in communications from the University of California, Berkeley, and a master’s degree in Journalism from Northwestern University. She is a recipient...