Navstar 3 (GPS SVN 3, OPS 5113), the third Block I Global Positioning System navigation satellite, launched on an Atlas F/SVS from Vandenberg SLC-3E into medium Earth orbit for the early GPS constellation.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- MEO
- Medium Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.1 T
- Flight
- 4th
- of 7 Atlas F/SVS flights
- Date and time
- 7 October 1978, 00:28 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas F/SVS
- Builder
- Convair
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 3E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Navigation
- International designator
- 1978-093
- Launches in 1978
- 96th of 128
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