Space-Based Infrared System | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 26/12/2018

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00:05:51 2 SBIRS High
00:09:16 3 SBIRS Low (Space Tracking and Surveillance System)
00:09:44 3.1 Original SBIRS Low
00:10:59 3.2 Space Tracking and Surveillance System



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The Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS) is a consolidated system intended to meet the United States' infrared space surveillance needs through the first two to three decades of the 21st century. The SBIRS program is designed to provide key capabilities in the areas of missile warning, missile defense and battlespace characterization via satellites in geosynchronous earth orbit (GEO), sensors hosted on satellites in highly elliptical orbit (HEO), and ground-based data processing and control. SBIRS ground software integrates infrared sensor programs of the U.S. Air Force (USAF) with new IR sensors. 
As of  January 2018, a total of ten satellites carrying SBIRS or STSS payloads had been launched: GEO-1 (USA-230, 2011), GEO-2 (USA-241, 2013), GEO-3 (USA-273, 2017), GEO-4 (USA-282, 2018), HEO-1 (USA-184, 2006), HEO-2 (USA-200, 2008), HEO-3 (USA-259, 2014), STSS-ATRR (USA-205, 2009), STSS Demo 1 (USA-208, 2009) and STSS Demo 2 (USA-209, 2009). The manufacturing contract for GEO-5 and GEO-6 was awarded in 2014, with the two satellites scheduled for delivery to the Air Force in 2022.