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USA-156 also known as GPS IIR-7 and GPS SVN-54 is an American navigation satellite which forms part of the Global Positioning System. It was the seventh Block IIR GPS satellite to be launched out of thirteen in the original configuration and twenty one overall. It was built by Lockheed Martin using the AS-4000 satellite bus.USA-156 was launched at 07:55:01 UTC on 30 January 2001 atop a Delta II carrier rocket flight number D283 flying in the 7925-9.5 configuration.