Atlas V 401 delivered the GPS IIF-4 (USA-242) navigation satellite to orbit for the US Air Force, the first operational GPS satellite launched on an Atlas V.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- MEO
- Medium Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.6 T
- Flight
- 18th
- of 41 Atlas V 401 flights
- Date and time
- 15 May 2013, 21:38 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas V 401
- Builder
- ULA
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 41, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Navigation
- International designator
- 2013-023
- Launches in 2013
- 24th of 81
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