launched fromUSA

USA-71

Name: USA-71
Start: 1991-07-04T02:32:00Z
Location: Canaveral

Success

JUL 04199102:32:00 UTC

Delta II launched GPS IIA-2, the second of 19 Block IIA navigation satellites, eight months after the first. It was deactivated on 30 September 2011 and moved to a graveyard orbit.

LIFTOFF

JUL 04 1991

02:32:00 UTC

Success

launched from LC-17A Canaveral

aboard Delta II 7925 Delta 206 into MEO

carrying 1,816 kg of payload

Payload

USA-71 (GPS IIA-2)

Navigation