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Successful BMD Tracking Satellites Launched

September 25, 2009 :: The Missile Defense Agency :: News

The Missile Defense Agency, together with NASA and the Air Force, launched two Space Tracking and Surveillance System Demonstrator satellites from Cape Canaveral, FL. The STSS satellites will help provide a more robust surveillance layer to the national Ballistic Missile Defense System, communicating detection and tracking information from launch to termination to Schriever Air Force Base in Colorado.

 

Now in low-Earth orbit, satellite sensors "will be tested in a series of scheduled events involving ground targets, airborne targets and short and long range ballistic missile targets." (Article)

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