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Space

Missile Defense Agency Demonstration Satellites Await Fall Launch

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Tuesday, July 21st, 2009

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By Ann Roosevelt The Missile Defense Agency's (MDA) two Space Tracking and Surveillance System (STSS) demonstration tracking satellites are at the launch site at Cape Canaveral, Fla., awaiting a fall launch, officials said. The Low Earth Orbit satellites are to "explore the capability of concepts for viewing missiles after their powered flight," Army Lt. Gen. Patrick O'Reilly, the MDA director, said at a Defense Writers Group breakfast last week. "[Missiles are] very bright during powered flight but afterwards when they're…

Congress

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Congress

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