Atlas E/SGS-2 from Vandenberg SLC-3W launched GPS-8 (Navstar 8 / SVN-8, OPS 9794), an early Block I Global Positioning System navigation satellite into medium Earth orbit for the U.S. Air Force.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- MEO
- Medium Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 792 kg
- Flight
- 1st
- of 4 Atlas E/SGS-2 flights
- Date and time
- 14 July 1983, 10:21 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas E/SGS-2
- Builder
- Convair
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 3W, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Navigation
- International designator
- 1983-072
- Launches in 1983
- 73rd of 129
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