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Space Tracking and Surveillance System
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The Northrop Grumman Corporation and Raytheon Company built Space Tracking and Surveillance System (STSS) Demonstration program satellites participated in a test of the U.S. Missile Defence Agency's (MDA's) Terminal High Altitude Area Defence (THAAD) system on June 28 in the most thorough indication yet of the space-based sensor's capabilities.
The STSS Demonstration satellites detected the launch of a threat-representative missile and relayed trajectory data to Ballistic Missile Defence System (BMDS) ground stations. The STSS satellites acquired and tracked the missile as anticipated.
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Delta II Rocket Body Re-entry
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As we reported, two ball-shaped meteoroids crashed to ground thirty kilometres to the northeast of Buren Soum, Tuv Province.
According to a team comprising specialists from defence, emergency and astronomy, who inspected the object, the two objects described by local people as meteoroids, were parts of U.S delivery rocket Delta-2.
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Possibly fell near Ulaanbaatar


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Delta II rocket body that was launched o the 25th September, 2010, for the STSS Demo mission is predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere.
Due to the classified nature of the mission the time and location are not constrained.

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The 127-foot United Launch Alliance rocket delivered to space two demonstration satellites that could lead to a major advance in the nation's defence against ballistic missiles.
Working together about 840 miles above Earth, the satellites will try to detect and track missiles throughout their flight, something existing combinations of defence satellites and land-, sea- and air-based radar systems can't do.
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NASA launches rocket from Cape Canaveral
A Delta II rocket took off for orbit Friday loaded with a pair of satellites that will become part of an expanding ballistic missile defence system.

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U.S. Air Force Supports Successful Delta II STSS DEMO Launch
The U.S. Air Force supported the successful NASA-led launch of a Space Tracking and Surveillance System Demonstration (STSS Demo) aboard a Delta II booster today. The system launched at 8:20 a.m. (EDT) from Space Launch Complex 17B here.

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United Launch Alliance Successfully Launches MDA STSS Demo Mission
A United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket, on behalf of the NASA Launch Services Program, successfully launched the Space Tracking and Surveillance System (STSS) Demonstration mission for the United States Missile Defence Agency at 8:20 a.m. EDT, today. STSS Demo is an element of the STSS Program, a space-based sensor component of a layered Ballistic Missile Defence System designed for the overall mission of detection, tracking, and discrimination of ballistic missiles.

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STSS Launch



STSS-DEMO: LAUNCH-part 1
STSS-DEMO: LAUNCH-part 2



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STSS-DEMO: FINAL MINUTES ON THE GROUND
Delta II Launch - STSS Demonstration



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The United Launch Alliance Delta 2 rocket with US Missile Defence Agency's Space Tracking and Surveillance System Demonstration mission (STSS Demo), was successfully from from Cape Canaveral at 12:20 GMT.

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