Launched USA-38 (GPS II-2), the second Block II GPS navigation satellite, from Cape Canaveral aboard a Delta II 6925. Built by Rockwell International for U.S. Air Force Space Systems Division, it helped expand the fledgling operational GPS constellation.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- MEO
- Medium Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.7 T
- Flight
- 2nd
- of 13 Delta II 6925 flights
- Date and time
- 10 June 1989, 22:30 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta II 6925
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Navigation
- International designator
- 1989-044
- Launches in 1989
- 45th of 102
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