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Third SBIRS Satellite Shipped To Florida For October Launch

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Third SBIRS Satellite Shipped To Florida For October Launch
Lockheed Martin’s SBIRS GEO-1 payload is loaded onto an Air Force C-5 in 2011. Photo: Lockheed Martin.

The Air Force and Lockheed Martin [LMT] shipped the third Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) missile-warning satellite to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., last week for its fall launch.The SBIRS Geosynchronous Earth Orbit Flight 3 (GEO-3) satellite flew from Sunnyvale, Calif., where it was built, to Florida aboard an Air Force C-5 Galaxy transport plane. It is scheduled to lift off aboard a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas 5 rocket in October.The SBIRS constellation, designed to replace aging Defense…

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