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Another DSP satellite was lost in 1999, DSP-19, after its Inertial Upper Stage failed following launch from a Titan 4B booster. [8] DSP-19 was a USAF Defense Support Program missile early warning satellite equipped with an infrared telescope to detect rocket launches. The Titan 4B rocket placed the IUS upper stages and payload into a 188 km x ...
Observation of a Delta II rocket launch by a SBIRS satellite in 2008. The United States was the first country to attempt to establish a space-based early warning system. The goal was to detect Soviet ballistic missile launches and give 20 to 33 minutes notice of the missile's arrival (against 10 to 25 minutes for the BMEWS ground-based radar ...
STSS was designed to be the low Earth orbiter (LEO) within the layered Ballistic Missile Defense System. It complemented the geosynchronous Defense Support Program, the Space-Based Infrared System, and other overhead non-imaging infrared (ONIR) systems [15] [16] and provided tracking cues to systems on the surface. The STSS program was ...
The central acquisition radar (CAR) is a long-range high-resolution 3D surveillance radar. [2] The entral acquisition radar was designed by Electronics and Radar Development Establishment (LRDE), a DRDO laboratory, and is produced by a joint venture between BEL, Larsen & Toubro, Astra Microwave and Entec. The radar employs a planar array ...
The Joint Tactical Ground Station (JTAGS) is the United States Space Force's element to United States Strategic Command's Theater Event System (TES). TES provides an integrated, in-theater, 24-hour overhead non-imaging infrared detection capability for processing and disseminating missile early warning, alerting, and cueing information data to combatant commanders and missile defense assets ...
The Green Pine radar and command-and-control systems were deployed at the base, while the Arrow launcher was installed 100 km (62 mi) offshore on an island that forms part of the test range. [16] The test was a success, with the interceptor destroying the Scud that flew a 300 km (190 mi) trajectory [ 16 ] at an altitude of 40 km (25 mi), [ 6 ...
The satellite images by Planet Labs PBC taken Monday morning near Isfahan's dual-use airport and air base, some 320 kilometers (200 miles) south of Tehran, showed an area nearby that served as a ...
AN/APG-33 Hughes Aircraft X band fire control radar for Northrop F-89A Scorpion Lockheed F-94A/B Starfire and Avro Canada CF-100 Canuck; AN/APG-34 gun aiming radar for Lockheed F-104C Starfighter; AN/APG-35 fire control radar for Douglas F3D Skyknight; AN/APG-36 fire control radar for McDonnell F2H-2N Banshee and North American F-86D Sabre