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USA-168 also known as GPS IIR-9 and GPS SVN-45 is an American navigation satellite which forms part of the Global Positioning System. It was the ninth 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-168 was launched at 22:09:01 UTC on 31 March 2003 atop a Delta II carrier rocket flight number D297 flying in the 7925-9.5 configuration.