Navstar 5 (GPS Block I SVN-5), an early U.S. Air Force Global Positioning System navigation satellite, launched on an Atlas F/SGS-1 from Vandenberg SLC-3E into medium Earth orbit as part of the developmental GPS constellation.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- MEO
- Medium Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.2 T
- Flight
- 6th
- of 7 Atlas F/SVS flights
- Date and time
- 9 February 1980, 23:08 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas F/SVS
- Builder
- Convair
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 3E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Navigation
- International designator
- 1980-011
- Launches in 1980
- 11th of 108
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