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GPS SVN 6
American GPS navigation satellite. GPS SVN 6 was launched on April 26, 1980 aboard a Atlas F/SVS from Vandenberg. Latest status in GCAT: in orbit.
COSPAR 1980-032ANORAD 11783United States
Identity
- Name in GCAT
- Navstar 6
- Common name
- GPS SVN 6
- Payload designation
- Navstar GPS SVN 6
- Other names
- OPS 5118:C
- International designator
- 1980-032A
- NORAD catalog number
- 11783
- GCAT identifier
- S11783
- UN registration
- ST/SG/SER.E/038
Mission
- Mission type
- Navigation
- Use
- Defense
- Program
- GPS I
- Owner
- USAF SD
- Country
- United States
- Builder
- Rockwell/Seal Beach
- Platform (bus)
- GPS
Launch
- Date
- April 26, 1980 · 10:00 UTC
- Launch record
- 1980-032Success
- Rocket
- Atlas F/SVS
- Spaceport
- Vandenberg · pad SLC3E
Orbit and fate
- Orbit class (GCAT)
- MEO
- Perigee
- 20,006 km
- Apogee
- 20,357 km
- Inclination
- 62.88°
- Status
- In orbit
- Last known active
- Mar 6, 1991
- End of operations
- Mar 6, 1991
Size
- Mass
- 431 kg
- Dry mass
- 431 kg
- Total mass with attached objects
- 792 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 Q7072865 (CC0).