Navstar 6 (GPS Block I SVN 6, OPS 5118), an early Global Positioning System navigation satellite for the U.S. Air Force demonstration constellation. Atlas F/SGS-1 from Vandenberg SLC-3E placed the craft in medium Earth orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- MEO
- Medium Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 925 kg
- Flight
- 7th
- of 7 Atlas F/SVS flights
- Date and time
- 26 April 1980, 10:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas F/SVS
- Builder
- Convair
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 3E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Navigation
- International designator
- 1980-032
- Launches in 1980
- 32nd of 108
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