Tags: Artificialsatellite, Satellite.
USA-178 also known as GPS IIR-12 and GPS SVN-60 is an American navigation satellite which forms part of the Global Positioning System. It was the twelfth 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-178 was launched at 22:54:00 UTC on 23 June 2004 atop a Delta II carrier rocket flight number D305 flying in the 7925-9.5 configuration.
