Navstar 4 (GPS SVN 4 / OPS 5114), the fourth Block I GPS development satellite for the U.S. Air Force navigation constellation. Atlas F/SVS from Vandenberg SLC-3E placed the Rockwell craft into ~20,200 km, 63° MEO.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- MEO
- Medium Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.1 T
- Flight
- 5th
- of 7 Atlas F/SVS flights
- Date and time
- 11 December 1978, 03:59 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas F/SVS
- Builder
- Convair
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 3E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Navigation
- International designator
- 1978-112
- Launches in 1978
- 116th of 128
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