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Missile Defense: Alternate Approaches to Space Tracking and Surveillance System Need to Be Considered.
General Accounting Office Reports & Testimony, June, 2003
GAO-03-597 May 23, 2003
The Department of Defense's Missile Defense Agency (MDA) is developing a ballistic missile defense system designed to counter a wide spectrum of ballistic missile threats. A future element of this system is the Space Tracking and Surveillance System (STSS). STSS will eventually be composed of a constellation of satellites that will work together to detect and track missiles throughout all phases of their flight. GAO was ...