Next Generation Missile Warning Satellite Launched Successfully

National Space Asset to Bolster Missile Warning Capabilities

CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, Fla. -- The first Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) geosynchronous (GEO-1) spacecraft, built by Lockheed Martin for the U.S. Air Force, was successfully launched today at 2:10 p.m. EDT from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket. SBIRS GEO-1 is the most technologically advanced military infrared satellite ever developed and will deliver vastly improv [...]

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