US satellites successfully track ballistic missile from cradle to grave, don’t pay for the flowers

Lasers destroy missiles , missiles shoot down satellites , and shortly, satellites may tell both where to attempt, because the Us of a successfully managed to trace a whole ballistic missile launch from “birth-to-death” with its prototype Space Tracking and Surveillance System. After a year and a half in orbit, two Northrop Grumman-built satellites managed the feat last week, in what the corporate’s calling “the Holy Grail for missile defense.” While we’re not reading about any plans to mount any lasers at the satellite’s… ahem… heads, Space News reports that the united states Navy will try to relay the satellite tracking data to its Aegis ships with interceptor missiles on board, and hopefully obliterate incoming projectiles with the additional range and reaction time that satellite coordinates afford. The Navy has reportedly scheduled its first game of space-based Missile Command for next month.

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