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Standard Missile 3

by Thomas Colbert in news

Today it was announced that the U.S. would use a Standard Missile 3 to shoot down a satellite that will soon collide with the Earth.

The Standard Missile 3 has some impressive features.

The SM-3 missile, designated RIM-161A, uses the basic SM-2ER Block IV A airframe and propulsion, and adds a third stage rocket motor (a.k.a. Advanced Solid Axial Starge, ASAS, made by Alliant Techsystems), a GPS/INS guidance section (a.k.a. GAINS, GPS-Aided Inertial Navigation System), and a LEAP (Lightweight Exo-Atmospheric Projectile) kinetic warhead (i.e. a non-explosive hit-to-kill warhead). The launching ships will be updated with Aegis LEAP Intercept (ALI) computer soft- and hardware.

The basic idea is that the SM-3 will hit the broken satellite before it re-enters Earth's atmosphere.

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Published: Thursday 14th of February 2008 05:10:03 PM

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