Delta II 6925 launched the GPS Block II SVN-17 navigation satellite (USA-49) from Cape Canaveral, one of the initial Block II satellites that established the modern GPS constellation.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- MEO
- Medium Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.7 T
- Flight
- 5th
- of 13 Delta II 6925 flights
- Date and time
- 11 December 1989, 18:10 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta II 6925
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Navigation
- International designator
- 1989-097
- Launches in 1989
- 98th of 102
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