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Based on its experiences with the launching of short-range theater missiles by Iraq during the 1991 Persian Gulf War, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) concluded that expanded theater missile warning capabilities were needed, and it began planning for an improved infrared satellite sensor capability that would support both long-range strategic and short-range theater ballistic missile ...
The Missile Defense Alarm System, or MIDAS, was a United States Air Force Air Defense Command system of 12 early-warning satellites that provided limited notice of Soviet intercontinental ballistic missile launches between 1960 and 1966.
The United States Theater Event System (TES) is a missile-warning system. The TES is composed of three ground elements: the Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) Mission Control Station, the Joint Tactical Ground Station (JTAGS), and the Tactical Detection and Reporting system. The TES in-theater capability will be enhanced significantly as its ...
For more than a decade, the Pentagon has employed Space Based Infrared System satellites for missile defense -- massive five-ton satellites placed in geosynchronous earth (GEO) and highly ...
In the mid 1950s, the United States began development of the first space-based missile detection system; the Missile Defense Alarm System (MIDAS), in low Earth orbit. Following the end of the MIDAS programme, plans to deploy an operational system led to the Integrated Missile Early Warning Satellite programme (IMEWS), followed by the Defense ...
USA-315, also known as SBIRS GEO-5, is a military satellite developed as a part of the Space-Based Infrared System. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 1 ] The satellite aims to increase the capabilities of the United States Department of Defense in terms of missile defense and military intelligence.
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 $1.2 billion SBIRS satellite is the sixth and final member of a space-based fleet of infrared early warning stations.