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USA-49 also known as GPS II-5 and GPS SVN-17 was an American navigation satellite which formed part of the Global Positioning System. It was the fifth of nine Block II GPS satellites to be launched which were the first operational GPS satellites to fly.USA-49 was launched at 18:10:01 UTC on 11 December 1989 atop a Delta II carrier rocket flight number D190 flying in the 6925 configuration.
