Delta II launched the GPS IIR-16(M) navigation satellite from Cape Canaveral, the third modernized Block IIR-M spacecraft, joining the GPS constellation to improve civil and military signal accuracy.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- MEO
- Medium Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2 T
- Flight
- 21st
- of 26 Delta II 7925-9.5 flights
- Date and time
- 25 September 2006, 18:50 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta II 7925-9.5
- Builder
- ULA
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Navigation
- International designator
- 2006-042
- Launches in 2006
- 45th of 66
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