Delta II launched GPS IIA-18 (SVN-30/USA-128), the eighteenth Block IIA Global Positioning System satellite, into medium Earth orbit from Cape Canaveral to maintain the GPS constellation.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- MEO
- Medium Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.9 T (est.)
- Flight
- 28th
- of 36 Delta II 7925 flights
- Date and time
- 12 September 1996, 08:49 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta II 7925
- Builder
- ULA
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Navigation
- International designator
- 1996-056
- Launches in 1996
- 60th of 77
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