Super Sensitive Small Missile Detector
The United States has agreed to provide Israel with access to its BMEWS
Technology • August 2011 • Views: 995
Two years ago, the United States put into orbit a pair of experimental STSS (Space Tracking and Surveillance System) satellites. These have better heat sensors and are there to provide earlier warning of ballistic missile launches, so that anti-missiles to hit ballistic missiles earlier, and with a higher probability of destroying them. STSS can also track other satellites, making it easier to destroy enemy satellites in wartime. STSS recently demonstrated an ability to detect short range, air-launched missiles.