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GPS SVN 1
American GPS navigation satellite. GPS SVN 1 was launched on February 22, 1978 aboard a Atlas F/SVS from Vandenberg. Latest status in GCAT: in orbit.
COSPAR 1978-020ANORAD 10684United States
Identity
- Name in GCAT
- Navstar 1
- Common name
- GPS SVN 1
- Payload designation
- Navstar GPS SVN 1
- Other names
- OPS 5111:C
- International designator
- 1978-020A
- NORAD catalog number
- 10684
- GCAT identifier
- S10684
- UN registration
- ST/SG/SER.E/007
Mission
- Mission type
- Navigation
- Use
- Defense
- Program
- GPS I
- Owner
- SAMSO
- Country
- United States
- Builder
- Rockwell/Seal Beach
- Platform (bus)
- GPS
Launch
- Date
- February 22, 1978 · 23:44 UTC
- Launch record
- 1978-020Success
- Rocket
- Atlas F/SVS
- Spaceport
- Vandenberg · pad SLC3E
Orbit and fate
- Orbit class (GCAT)
- MEO
- Perigee
- 20,075 km
- Apogee
- 20,291 km
- Inclination
- 63.31°
- Status
- In orbit
- Last known active
- Jul 17, 1985
- End of operations
- Jul 17, 1985
Size
- Mass
- 409 kg
- Dry mass
- 409 kg
- Total mass with attached objects
- 775 kg
- Length
- 2.4 m
- Diameter
- 2.60 m
- Span
- 5.3 m
Source: GCAT payload, deep-space and lander catalogs, Jonathan C. McDowell (CC BY 4.0); Wikidata Q7072860 (CC0).