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GPS SVN 2
American GPS navigation satellite. GPS SVN 2 was launched on May 13, 1978 aboard a Atlas F/SVS from Vandenberg. Latest status in GCAT: in orbit.
COSPAR 1978-047ANORAD 10893United States
Identity
- Name in GCAT
- Navstar 2
- Common name
- GPS SVN 2
- Payload designation
- Navstar GPS SVN 2
- Other names
- OPS 5112:C
- International designator
- 1978-047A
- NORAD catalog number
- 10893
- GCAT identifier
- S10893
- UN registration
- ST/SG/SER.E/012
Mission
- Mission type
- Navigation
- Use
- Defense
- Program
- GPS I
- Owner
- SAMSO
- Country
- United States
- Builder
- Rockwell/Seal Beach
- Platform (bus)
- GPS
Launch
- Date
- May 13, 1978 · 10:34 UTC
- Launch record
- 1978-047Success
- Rocket
- Atlas F/SVS
- Spaceport
- Vandenberg · pad SLC3E
Orbit and fate
- Orbit class (GCAT)
- MEO
- Perigee
- 20,056 km
- Apogee
- 20,195 km
- Inclination
- 63.18°
- Status
- In orbit
- Last known active
- Feb 12, 1988
- End of operations
- Feb 12, 1988
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 Q7072861 (CC0).