GPS · Navigation
GPS BIIF-1 (PRN 25)
OperationalNavigationMEO
Broadcasts precise timing/positioning signals for global navigation (GNSS).
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Launch
- Launch date
- May 28, 2010 at 03:00 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Delta IV M+(4,2) →
- Operator
- United Launch Alliance
- Mission
- GPS IIF SV-1 (USA-213)
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- MEO
- Apoapsis
- 20,518 km
- Periapsis
- 19,847 km
- Inclination
- 54.27°
- Orbital period
- 717.98 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- DoD/US Air Force
- Manufacturer
- Boeing Satellite Systems
- Users
- Military/Commercial
- Launch mass
- 1,630 kg
- Design lifetime
- 12 years
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2010-022A
- NORAD catalog №
- 36585
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Constellation
- GPS
- Radar cross-section
- 5.9608 m²
- Status
- Operational
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