BALLISTIC MISSILE DEFENSE: Strategic Target System Launches from Kauai.

Abstract

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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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1993
Accession Number
ADA344894

Entities

People

  • B. Hathaway
  • J. K. Spencer
  • R. M. Crowl

Organizations

  • United States Government Accountability Office

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Facilities
  • Anti-Ballistic Missiles
  • Ballistic Missiles
  • Contractors
  • Contracts
  • Defense Systems
  • Engineering
  • Governments
  • Ground Based
  • Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles
  • Launch Vehicles
  • National Security
  • Range Safety
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Test Equipment
  • Test Facilities

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Astronomy and Astrophysics.
  • Missile Defense Systems.

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Satellites