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KSC-2009-4619
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The shipping crate is being removed from the STSS Demonstrator SV-1 spacecraft in the Astrotech payload processing facility in Titusville, Fla. The spacecraft is a midcourse tracking technology demonstrator, part of an evolving ballistic missile defense system. STSS is capable of tracking objects after boost phase and provides trajectory information to other sensors. It will be launched by NASA for the Missile Defense Agency in late summer.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineKSC-2009-4619. NASA/KSC, 2009-07-23. Public domain. ID: KSC-2009-4619.
