STARS is a BMDO program managed by the U.S. Army Space and Strategic Defense Command (SSDC). It began in 1985 in response to concerns that the supply of surplus Minuteman I boosters used to launch targets and other experiments on intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) flight trajectories in support of the Strategic Defense Initiative would be depleted by 1988. SSDC tasked Sandia National Laboratories, a Department of Energy laboratory, to develop an alternative launch vehicle using surplus Polaris boosters. Two STARS booster configurations (STARS I and STARS II) have been developed. The first STARS flight, a hardware check-out flight, was successfully launched in February 1993.


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    Title :

    BALLISTIC MISSILE DEFENSE: Strategic Target System Launches from Kauai


    Contributors:
    B. Hathaway (author) / J. K. Spencer (author) / R. M. Crowl (author)

    Publication date :

    1993


    Size :

    29 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English





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