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Space

First Space Based Surveillance Satellite Launched

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Monday, October 11th, 2010

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By Marina Malenic The Air Force successfully launched the first Space Based Space Surveillance spacecraft last week from Vandenberg AFB, Calif., the service said. SBSS is designed to detect, collect, identify and track man-made space objects from deep space to low-earth orbit. It uses a two-axis gimbal that points the visible sensor, and its on-board mission data processor performs image processing to extract moving targets and reference star pixels to reduce the downlink data size, according to the Air Force.…

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