Placed the GPS IIR-3 navigation satellite (USA-145, SVN-46) into orbit for the US Air Force from Cape Canaveral, the third Block IIR GPS satellite launched. The originally assigned satellite, SVN-50, had been damaged by rainwater leaking into its clean room in May 1999.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- MEO
- Medium Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2 T
- Flight
- 4th
- of 26 Delta II 7925-9.5 flights
- Date and time
- 7 October 1999, 12:51 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta II 7925-9.5
- Builder
- ULA
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Navigation
- International designator
- 1999-055
- Launches in 1999
- 57th of 78
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