SBIRS GEO-1 Launch
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with the Air Force’s Space Based
Infrared Systems (SBIRS) GEO-1 payload blasts off at 2:10 p.m. EDT Saturday
from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 41. SBIRS is
designed to provide global, overhead, persistent, infrared surveillance capability
to meet 21st century demands in missile warning, missile defense, battlespace
awareness, and technical intelligence.