Delivered USA-87 (GPS SVN-29, part of the GPS IIA series, Navstar II-17) to medium Earth orbit, expanding the US Global Positioning System constellation. The launch flew two days after a December 16 attempt was scrubbed for a ground anomaly.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- MEO
- Medium Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.9 T (est.)
- Flight
- 14th
- of 36 Delta II 7925 flights
- Date and time
- 18 December 1992, 22:16 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta II 7925
- Builder
- ULA
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Navigation
- International designator
- 1992-089
- Launches in 1992
- 91st of 97
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