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Saturday, September 26, 2009

Delta II STSS Demo Launch


A United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket managed by NASAs Launch Services Program lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., Thursday.

It carried two spacecraft for the United States Missile Defense Agency. The Space Tracking and Surveillance System Demonstrator mission, or STSS Demo, launched from Pad B at Launch Complex 17 at 8 a.m. EDT.

STSS Demo is an element of the STSS Program, a space-based sensor component of a layered Ballistic Missile Defense System designed for the overall mission of detection, tracking and discrimination of ballistic missiles.

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