Details of the STSS Test

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Baker Spring, Missile Defense Tests Successful, but Future of Program in Doubt. Heritage Foundation, Feb 20, 2013 (blog).
http://blog.heritage.org/2013/02 ... f-program-in-doubt/
("For the first time the successful intercept was conducted by using STSS, which is composed of satellite sensors, as the primary, although not exclusive, source of the targeting data. * * * the test reveals the enormous advantages for US missile defense capabilities obtained by deploying missile defense systems in space. * * * the physical destruction of the target during this test took place in space. * * * The targeting data generated by the satellites permitted the interceptor to destroy the target earlier in its midcourse flight trajectory")