STARS
Launch vehicle · USA
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American test vehicle. Three stage target vehicle for anti-ballistic missile tests, consisting of a surplus Polaris A3 SLBM (A3P first stage + X-260 second stage) and an Orbus 1 third stage.
Sandia National Laboratories began development of the vehicle in 1985 as an alternative to existing test vehicles using Minuteman 1 surplus rocket stages. The STARS I configuration could boost as single simulated warhead. STARS II added the ODES (Operations and Deployment Experiments Simulator) fourth stage, which simulated the post-boost vehicle of an ICBM and could dispense decoys or multiple simulated warheads.
Maximum range: 5,500 km (3,400 mi).
More at: STARS.
Related
- Family
- anti-ballistic target
- Country
- USA
- Launch Sites
- Barking Sands, Barking Sands LC42, Kodiak
- Agency
- Lockheed
Chronology
16 events
1993 February 26
20:45 GMT - . Launch Site: Barking Sands. Launch Complex: Barking Sands LC42. LV Family: Polaris. Launch Vehicle: STARS.1993 August 25
10:00 GMT - . Launch Site: Barking Sands. Launch Complex: Barking Sands LC42. LV Family: Polaris. Launch Vehicle: STARS.1994 July 22
Launch Site: Barking Sands. Launch Complex: Barking Sands LC42. LV Family: Polaris. Launch Vehicle: STARS.1996 August 31
15:41 GMT - . Launch Site: Barking Sands. Launch Complex: Barking Sands LC42. LV Family: Polaris. Launch Vehicle: STARS.2001 November 9
18:12 GMT - . Launch Site: Kodiak. LV Family: Polaris. Launch Vehicle: STARS. FAILURE: Failure.2004 December 15
04:45 GMT - . Launch Site: Kodiak. LV Family: Polaris. Launch Vehicle: STARS.- IFT-13c Target mission - . Nation: USA. Agency: USA SMDC. Apogee: 1,000 km (600 mi). Target for ballistic missile defence intercept test. Launch successful, but anti-ballistic missile that was to intercept it never left silo. Impacted in Pacific Ocean. Delayed from January, August, November, December 9 and 12.
2005 February 14
06:22 GMT - . Launch Site: Kodiak. LV Family: Polaris. Launch Vehicle: STARS.2006 February 23
16:09 GMT - . Launch Site: Kodiak. LV Family: Polaris. Launch Vehicle: STARS.2006 September 1
17:22 GMT - . Launch Site: Kodiak. LV Family: Polaris. Launch Vehicle: STARS.2007 May 25
14:15 GMT - . Launch Site: Kodiak. LV Family: Polaris. Launch Vehicle: STARS. FAILURE: Failure.2007 September 28
20:01 GMT - . Launch Site: Kodiak. LV Family: Polaris. Launch Vehicle: STARS.2008 July 18
21:47 GMT - . Launch Site: Kodiak. Launch Complex: Kodiak. Launch Pad: LP2. LV Family: Polaris. Launch Vehicle: STARS.2008 December 5
20:04 GMT - . Launch Site: Kodiak. LV Family: Polaris. Launch Vehicle: STARS.- MDA FTG-05 Target - . Nation: USA. Type: ABM Target.
2011 November 17
11:30 GMT - . Launch Site: Barking Sands. Launch Complex: Barking Sands LC42. LV Family: Polaris. Launch Vehicle: STARS.- AHW Flight 1A - . Nation: USA. Type: ABM Target. Apogee: 1,000 km (600 mi). Advanced Hypersonic Weapon test. The boost-glide vehicle reentered the atmosphere over the Pacific and flew a long hypersonic glide trajectory to the Kwajalein Island impact area..
2014 August 25
08:25 GMT - . Launch Site: Kodiak. LV Family: Polaris. Launch Vehicle: STARS.- AHW FT2 - . Nation: USA. Apogee: 1.00 km (0.60 mi). Military hypersonic glide test failure. This was a US Army mission from a converted Polaris missile launched from Kodiak, Alaska. The missile went off course and was destroyed shortly after launch..
2017 October 30
Launch Site: Barking Sands. Launch Complex: Barking Sands LC42. LV Family: Polaris. Launch Vehicle: STARS.- CPS FE-1 - . Nation: USA. Type: ABM Target. Apogee: 1,000 km (600 mi). Test mission. Impacted Kwajalein..