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USA-126 also known as GPS IIA-17 GPS II-26 and GPS SVN-40 is an American navigation satellite which forms part of the Global Positioning System. It was the seventeenth of nineteen Block IIA GPS satellites to be launched.USA-126 was launched at 00:50:00 UTC on 16 July 1996 atop a Delta II carrier rocket flight number D237 flying in the 7925-9.5 configuration. The launch took place from Launch Complex 17A at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station and placed USA-126 into a transfer orbit.
