NAVSTAR Geocoin GPS 2R-7

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Owner:
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Released:
Friday, June 30, 2006
Origin:
North Carolina, United States
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Current Goal

Please move this geocoin quickly from cache to cache.

About This Item

The NAVSTAR satellites are the space based components of the Global Positioning system (GPS). For the system to be fully operational, twenty four satellites orbit the earth at 10,900 miles in 6 orbital planes [depicted on the coin] with four satellites in each plane. This geocoin is named after one of those satellites. The GPS 2R-7 (aka 2001 004A and SVN 54) satellite was built at a cost of $44 million and launched in 2001. It weighs about as much as my car (~2 metric tonnes) and has a design lifespan of 10 years - though many of the GPS satellites in orbit are well past their design lifetime. Hopefully this coin will remain in circulation as long as, or longer than, the GPS 2R-7 satellite.

Please log this geocoin when you find it and don't forget to mark it as dropped when it goes back into a cache. This geocoin has an extra feature. When you log it as found in the travelbug section of geocaching.com, a special icon will appear in the user stats section of your profile.

Tracking History (1606.3mi) View Map

Retrieve It from a Cache 6/30/2007 JimBat retrieved it from It's a Revolution Pennsylvania   Visit Log

Picked it up and will move along soon
Dropped Off 6/2/2007 CacheDetectives placed it in It's a Revolution Pennsylvania - 7.44 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 3/19/2007 CacheDetectives retrieved it from Victoria's Secrets Pennsylvania   Visit Log

I'll move this to a cache in Missouri this weekend when we travel there for MOGA.
Dropped Off 1/10/2007 Zach from PA placed it in Victoria's Secrets Pennsylvania - 46.93 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 8/30/2006 Zach from PA retrieved it from Happy Trails to U. (S.C.) Pennsylvania   Visit Log

I retrieved this Geocoin from Happy Trails to U. (S.C.) at about 19:45 EDT on August 30, 2006.
Dropped Off 8/11/2006 lindsychris placed it in Happy Trails to U. (S.C.) Pennsylvania - 295.79 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 7/30/2006 lindsychris retrieved it from "The Notebook" North Carolina   Visit Log

Ok...grabbing it out of The Notebook. Mileage is correct! 🙂
Dropped Off 7/30/2006 lindsychris placed it in "The Notebook" North Carolina   Visit Log
Grab It (Not from a Cache) 7/30/2006 lindsychris grabbed it   Visit Log

It was nice meeting you guys--too bad we couldn't find the cache! 🙂

(We're grabbing your coin, dropping it in to "The Notebook" so it's mileage is correct. We'll drop it in a Pittsburgh area cache soon!)
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