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MDA: Low-Earth Orbit Missile Tracker Six Months Ahead of Schedule

April 28, 2004 :: Inside Defense :: News

Citing an April 13 report from the Missile Defense Agency, Inside Missile Defense says that the Space Tracking and Surveillance System (STSS), a $3 billion low-earth orbit satellite scanning system that tracks ballistic missiles in space, passed an important design review last December and is six months ahead of schedule.
        The STSS is mounted with two infrared sensors, “a wide-view acquisition sensor for boost phase detection and a narrow-view sensor that tracks delivery vehicles through the middle of their trajectories in space.”
        Two STSS satellites are expected to be launched in 2007, after the “integration” of the pair of sensors begins in 2005.

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