Navstar 2 (GPS SVN 2, OPS 5112), the second Block I Global Positioning System development satellite for the US Air Force. Atlas F/SGS-1 from Vandenberg SLC-3E placed it in ~20,200 km medium Earth orbit at 63° for GPS constellation concept validation.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- MEO
- Medium Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.1 T
- Flight
- 3rd
- of 7 Atlas F/SVS flights
- Date and time
- 13 May 1978, 10:34 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas F/SVS
- Builder
- Convair
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 3E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Navigation
- International designator
- 1978-047
- Launches in 1978
- 48th of 128
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