Delta II Delivers First Modernized GPS Satellite to Orbit

Photo by Carleton Bailie © The Boeing Company

Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. 25 Sept., 2005 — A Boeing Delta II launch vehicle today successfully delivered the first of the modernized Block IIR Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites to space for the U.S. Air Force. The Delta II rocket carrying the GPS IIR-14 (M) spacecraft lifted off from Space Launch Complex 17A at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., at 11:37 p.m. EDT. Following a nominal 24-minute flight, the rocket deployed the satellite to a transfer orbit.

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