The first Lockheed Martin-built Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) geosynchronous (GEO-1) spacecraft beamed down its first infrared image on June 21 to the SBIRS ground station. Following its May 7 launch, the satellite is performing as expected, and is now undergoing early orbit testing.
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SBIRS-High and SBIRS-Low.
At one time the two missile defense satellite systems were notorious examples of over budget, technologically challenged military space programs.
SBIRS — space-based infrared systems — was conceived in the early 1990s as the next-generation of spacecraft that could not only warn when intercontinental or theater ballistic rockets were being launched, but track them accurately enough to possibly shoot them down with a missile defense system.
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A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas 5 launches the first dedicated SBIRS satellite.
The U.S. Air Force successfully launched its first Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) geosynchronous missile warning satellite May 7 aboard an Atlas 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., the service announced May 7.
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