GPS · Navigation
GPS BIIR-13 (PRN 02)
OperationalNavigationMEO
Broadcasts precise timing/positioning signals for global navigation (GNSS).
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Launch
- Launch date
- November 6, 2004 at 05:39 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Delta II 7925-9.5 →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- GPS IIR-13
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- MEO
- Apoapsis
- 20,634 km
- Periapsis
- 19,732 km
- Inclination
- 55.14°
- Orbital period
- 718.01 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- DoD/US Air Force
- Manufacturer
- Lockheed Martin
- Users
- Military/Commercial
- Launch mass
- 2,217 kg
- Dry mass
- 980 kg
- Power
- 1,136 W
- Design lifetime
- 10 years
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2004-045A
- NORAD catalog №
- 28474
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Constellation
- GPS
- Radar cross-section
- 2.5118 m²
- Status
- Operational
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