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USA-196 also known as GPS IIR-17(M) GPS IIRM-4 and GPS SVN-55 is an American navigation satellite which forms part of the Global Positioning System. It was the fourth of eight Block IIRM satellites to be launched and the seventeenth of twenty one Block IIR satellites overall. It was built by Lockheed Martin using the AS-4000 satellite bus.USA-196 was launched at 12:23:00 UTC on 17 October 2007 atop a Delta II carrier rocket flight number D328 flying in the 7925-9.5 configuration.
