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USA-128 also known as GPS IIA-18 GPS II-27 and GPS SVN-30 is an American navigation satellite which forms part of the Global Positioning System. It was the eighteenth of nineteen Block IIA GPS satellites to be launched.USA-128 was launched at 08:49:00 UTC on 12 September 1996 atop a Delta II carrier rocket flight number D238 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-128 into a transfer orbit.