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Flight Test Evaluates New Thrusters for the Ground-Based Interceptor

Friday, January 29, 2016 16:28
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Defense-Update reports: A long-range ground-based interceptor is launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, successfully evaluating performance of alternate divert thrusters for the system’s Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle. This test, designated as Ground-based Midcourse Defense Controlled Test Vehicle-02+, was a planned non-intercept flight test. Data from this test will be used to improve the Ground-based Midcourse Defense element of the nation’s Ballistic Missile Defense System. Photo: MDANew thrusters system designed for the Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle (EKV) of the Ground Based Interceptor (GBI) missile have passed an important validation test yesterday. The planned test that was originally scheduled for late 2015 did not include a target intercept. The test evaluated the CE-II EKV that demonstrated the performance of alternate divert thrusters in a flight environment. It also performed end-to-end discrimination of a complex target scene through the GMD fire control loop. The next flight test will conduct full intercept of a target simulating an Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile (ICMB).

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Source: http://defense-update.com/20160129_gm-ctv-02.html

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