Mar 24 1989
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In a major test of the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), a Delta Star SDI test satellite was successfully launched aboard a Delta launch vehicle at 4:51 p.m. from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. The three-ton satellite would be used to test remote sensing equipment used to detect rocket launches and laser beam emissions from Earth in conditions that would simulate the initial stages of a nuclear conflict. The three-ton satellite carried a laser radar, seven video imaging cameras, and an infrared imager. The Delta Star was expected to carry out tests throughout the next six to nine months. (SSR 1989 026A; NY Times, Mar 25/89; W Post, Mar 25/89; C Trib, Mar 25/89)
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