Status
Success
Rocket
Mission Details
SBIRS GEO-2
The Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS) is a consolidated system intended to meet the United States' infrared space surveillance needs through the first two to three decades of the 21st century. The SBIRS program is designed to provide key capabilities in the areas of missile warning, missile defense and battlespace characterization via satellites in geosynchronous earth orbit (GEO), sensors hosted on satellites in highly elliptical orbit (HEO), and ground-based data processing and control. SBIRS ground software integrates infrared sensor programs of the U.S. Air Force (USAF) with new IR sensors.
Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 4,500.0 kg
Geostationary Transfer Orbit
Location
SLC-41, Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida, USA
Stats
2013
12th orbital launch attempt
United Launch Alliance
69th mission
3rd mission of 2013
68th successful mission
64th consecutive successful mission
Atlas V
37th mission
3rd mission of 2013
36th successful mission
27th consecutive successful mission