USA-66 - Space Junk Series #14 Traditional Cache

There is always an imminent threat of "something falling from space...

This series commemorates space junk that fell to Earth off various satellites during the past few weeks. Extreme measures were exhausted to FTF these marvelous historic pieces for your enjoyment before muggles got to them, so please treat them with awe and respect. All space junk pieces have been scrutinised for outer space viruses, bacteria, other contaminants, ionisized Psychlodinian dust and ear worm eggs. Those that showed any threat were incinerated for your safety, except for the SPUTNIK piece.... It is Russian. It does not want to melt...Each piece also warrants some edification on its source

USA-66

USA-66, also known as GPS IIA-1, GPS II-10 and GPS SVN-23, is an American navigation satellite which forms part of the Global Positioning System. It was the first of nineteen Block IIA GPS satellites to be launched

USA-66 was launched on 26 November 1990, atop a Delta II carrier rocket and is the oldest GPS satellite still in operation (as at December 2015...)

On 30 December 1990, USA-66 was in an orbit with a perigee of 20,072 km, an apogee of 20,293 km, a period of 717.98 minutes, and 54.9 degrees of inclination to the equator. It was initially given PRN 23, which it used until its retirement in February 2004; however, it was subsequently reactivated broadcasting PRN 32 and in February 2008 it rejoined the operational constellation. It is located in slot 5 of plane E of the GPS constellation. The satellite has a mass of 1,816 kg

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