MILITARY LAUNCHES SATELLITE TO HELP DETECT MISSILES.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. The military Wednesday successfully launched an experimental satellite designed to track missiles and help civilian scientists study Earth's environmental changes. The $325 million Midcourse Space Experiment Mission The Midcourse Space Experiment (MSX) is a Ballistic Missile Defense Organization satellite experiment (unmanned space mission) to map bright infrared sources in space. observatory lifted off aboard a Delta II rocket at 5:27 a.m., and reached its orbit 560 miles in space about an hour later, Air Force Lt. Carol Kanode said. The 5,952-pound, 16-foot-long satellite, called MSX MSX - Microsoft Extended , was primarily designed for national defense, although it will make a number of scientific observations during its four- to five-year lifetime. The Pentagon plans to launch several missiles from the East and West coasts to test the satellite's tracking ability. The satellite will try to track the missiles from launch to re-entry RE-ENTRY, estates. The resuming or retaking possession of land which the party lately had. 2. Ground rent deeds and leases frequently contain a clause authorizing the landlord to reenter on the non-payment of rent, or the breach of some covenant, when the into the atmosphere. MSX was designed to study the backgrounds against which missiles travel during their midcourse mid·course n. 1. The part of a missile flight between the end of the launching phase and reentry, during which corrective maneuvers are made. 2. The middle point of a course or of a course of action. . Those backgrounds include the upper atmosphere, the stars and the celestial phenomena known as auroras, or Northern and Southern lights. |
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