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 In 2009. NASA's Launch Services Program at Kennedy supported two launches for the U.S. Missile Defense Agency. 

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 The first was the Space Tracking and Surveillance System-Advanced Technology Risk Reduction
spacecraft. or STSS-ATRR. 

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 A Delta II rocket carrying the spacecraft lifted off at 1:24 p.m. pacific time on May 5th. from NASA's
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 Launch Complex 2 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. 

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 The spacecraft successfully separated from the Delta II about 58 minutes later. 

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 The STSS ATRR mission is a space-based sensor component of the Ballistic Missile Defense System. or BMDS. to 

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 detect. track. and intercept ballistic missiles. 

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