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The United StatesMissile Defense Agency (MDA) has developed a Space Tracking and Surveillance System (STSS) (formerly SBIRS-Low) which was used to research the space-based detection and tracking of ballistic missiles. Data from STSS satellites could allow interceptors to engage incoming missiles earlier in flight than would be possible with other missile detection systems.^[4] The STSS program began in 2001, when the 'SBIRS Low' program was transferred to MDA from the United States Air Force.^[5] In December 2002, SBIRS Low Research & Development (SBIRS Low R&D) was renamed Space Tracking and Surveillance System (STSS).^[6]

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Launch[edit]

One of the two satellites had been shipped to Cape Canaveral (CCAFS) on 4 May 2009; the second satellite arrived at the launch site on 25 June 2009.^[7][8]

Two demonstration satellites were launched together on a single Delta IIlaunch vehicle.^[9] Launch took place 25 September 2009, from Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 17 (LC-17B).^[10] STSS constellation consists of two satellites orbiting at 1350 km, 58.0° inclination, with 120 minute period.^[3]

It was reported that several items of debris,^[11][12] identified by amateur satellite watchers as remnants of the Delta-2 launch vehicle, had crashed in a field in Mongolia on 19 February 2010.^[13]

Early detection[edit]

The perceived advantage of STSS is that its satellites, by operating at a lower altitude and by using long- and short-wave infrared sensors, will be able to acquire and track missiles in midcourse and during the boost phase.^[14]

The role of STSS[edit]

STSS is designed to be the low Earth orbiter (LEO) within the layered Ballistic Missile Defense System. It complements the geosynchronous Defense Support Program, the Space-Based Infrared System, and other overhead non-imaging infrared (ONIR) systems ^[15][16] and provides tracking cues to systems on the surface. The STSS program is developed in phases, the first of which is the launch of two demonstrator satellites. The demonstrators will perform experiments and prove out systems and processes to establish a knowledge base for future operational designs.^[17] The demonstration satellites, built by Northrop Grumman Space Technology (spacecraft) and Raytheon Technologies (sensors) detected and tracked a two-stage Ground-Based Interceptor (GBI) during a U.S. Missile Defense Agency flight test on 6 June 2010.^[18]

Congressional testimony[edit]

According to Congressional testimony, military officials believe that STSS has the potential to bolster the nation's missile defense system. 'Two recent flight tests demonstrated that STSS dramatically improved the precision of threat missile attacks and provided more accurate fire control quality data to the Aegis ships several minutes earlier than less accurate data provided by organic radars in the Aegis or THAAD (Theater High Altitude Area Defense) systems', U.S. Army Lt. General Patrick J. O'Reilly, Director of the U.S. Missile Defense Agency, told the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee's Defense subcommittee in prepared testimony on 25 May 2011.^[19]

Timeline of STSS missile tracking tests[edit]

According to Globe Newswire (sourced by Northrop Grumman) press releases, the following is a summary of the STSS Demonstration program satellites' on-orbit performance.^{[20][21][22][23]}

June 2010

• 6 June 2010 at 22:25 UTC

Ground-Based Interceptor test launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base.

First STSS Object Sighting Messages (OSM) of a missile
First on-board missile track formed.

• 16 June 2010 at 10:01 UTC

ICBMMinuteman III test launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base
Pre-determined target launched of Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site at Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands
Data transmitted at Missile Defense Integration and Operations Center (MDIOC) at Schriever Air Force Base, Colorado.

First dual satellite collect of target, and
First target acquisition from a target launched beyond the horizon.

• 29 June 2010 at 07:32 UTC

Scud missile was launched from a Mobile Launch Platform (formerly USS Tripoli) near of Kauai, Hawaii
Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base.

First OSMs sent to Enterprise Sensors Laboratory at Schriever Air Force Base, Colorado, for data fusion with other sensors in real time
First track of a dim theater missile.

July 2010

• 19 July 2010

First track of a resident space object.

Tracked a NOAA weather satellite on 19 July 2010 for several minutes (externally queued)

• 23 July 2010

First autonomous acquisition sensor to track sensor handover of a target.

Hand-off demonstration occurred when STSS acquired a ground laser source operated by U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory from the Starfire Optical Range at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico.

August 2010

• 5 August 2010

First track of an aircraft

Precision track sensor operation below the horizon during daylight
First autonomous acquisition sensor to track sensor handover of an aircraft

September 2010

• 1 September 2010

Airborne Laser Test Bed Exercise

First autonomous acquisition sensor to track sensor handover of a boosted target

• 17 September 2020 at 10:02 UTC

ICBM Minuteman III test launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base to Island of Guam (8500 km).

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First post boost track continuation of a target with track sensor
First demonstration of track sensor generating multiple tracks for separating objects.

October 2010

• 5 October 2010

Aegis Launch on Remote Campaign
First Track sensor stereo track of a dim boosted target
First stereo post boost tracking of midcourse target.

March 2011

• 9 March 2011

Second Aegis Readiness Assessment Vehicle Targeting
STSS satellites acquired and tracked its target until re-entry

• 15 March 2011

Second full-course tracking during U.S. Missile Defense Agency's (MDA) Aegis launch
Successful production of 'stereo' 3-D tracking software to follow the target missile's flight path to predict its impact point.

April 2011

• 15 April 2011

Sea-based missile defense test

STSS satellites target and help to intercept an intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM); destruction of the IRBM on impact.

July 2011

• 8 July 2011

STSS test on short-range air-launched target (SRALT)

This test proved the STSS's ability to track dim objects that have extremely short flight timelines.

See also[edit]

References[edit]

1. ^'Display: STSS Demo-1 2009-052A'. NASA. 14 May 2020. Retrieved 25 December 2020.This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
2. ^'Display: STSS Demo-2 2009-052B'. NASA. 14 May 2020. Retrieved 25 December 2020.This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
3. ^ ^ab'MDA Documents'. MDA. 27 March 2017.This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
4. ^'MDA Link - Sensors'. MDA. Archived from the original on 23 March 2008.This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
5. ^'Fact Sheet on Space Based Infrared System'. Center for Defense Information. 2007. Archived from the original on 13 November 2007.
6. ^'Space Tracking and Surveillance System (STSS)'. Global Security. Retrieved 25 December 2020.
7. ^'STSS's Demo Program Space Vehicle Two Ships to Canaveral'. ASD Network. 4 May 2009.
8. ^'Space Tracking Surveillance System's Demonstration Program Ships Second Satellite to Cape Canaveral'. Missile Defense Agency. 7 July 2009. Archived from the original on 13 July 2009. Retrieved 21 August 2009.This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
9. ^'Fact Sheet - Space Tracking and Surveillance System'. MDA. 2008. Archived from the original on 9 January 2009.This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
10. ^'Delta II NASA Launch for Missile Defense Agency Successful'. NASA KSC. 25 September 2009.This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
11. ^'Object from sky most likely a dead satellite'.
12. ^'На Монголию упали два НЛО. ФОТО'.
13. ^'Pieces of 09052C landed in Mongolia'.
14. ^'Fact Sheets - Space Based Infrared Systems'. USAF. Archived from the original on 2 July 2007.This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
15. ^Office of Secretary of Defense (Mar 2005) 'Report to the Defense and Intelligence Committees of the Congress of the United States on the Status of the Space-Based Infrared System Program'This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
16. ^ONIR systems
17. ^'The Missile Defense Agency's Space Tracking and Surveillance System'. Aerospace Corporation.
18. ^http://www.irconnect.com/noc/press/pages/news_releases.html?d=195917
19. ^'Archived copy'. Archived from the original on 2 December 2011. Retrieved 18 August 2011.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
20. ^'Northrop Grumman-Built STSS Demonstration Satellites Show 'Force Multiplier' Capability in Aegis Campaign Test'. Northrop Grumman. Globe Newswire.
21. ^'Northrop Grumman-Built STSS Demonstrators Prove They Can Track Ballistic Missiles From 'Birth-to-Death''. Northrop Grumman. Globe Newswire.
22. ^'STSS Demonstration Satellites, Built by Northrop Grumman, Show New 'Remote Cueing' Capabilities During Aegis Test'. Northrop Grumman. Globe Newswire.
23. ^'STSS Demonstrator Satellites, Built by Northrop Grumman, Track Short-Range, Air-Launched Rocket in Missile Defense Test'. Northrop Grumman. Globe Newswire.

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Marketing is exciting. It’s a great way to promote your business and drive new leads and sales.

However, amidst all of that excitement, it’s important to remember that even the best marketing campaign will fail if you aren’t targeting the right market.

Fortunately, if you take the time to think about things the right way, you can quickly and accurately identify the right target market for your business. And in this article, I’m going to show you how.

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Understanding your target market is the key to creating successful marketing campaigns. After all, if you don’t know who you are marketing to and what motivates them to buy, how will you pique their interest in your product or service?

To figure out who your target market is, there are three easy questions you can ask yourself. The answers to these questions will not only help you identify your target market, they’ll also help you understand how to best promote your business to that market segment.

Who are my existing customers?

The easiest way to identify potential customers for your business is to look at your current customers. Your product or service provides enough value that these people were willing to buy from you, so they are a great example of the kind of people who you should probably be targeting with your marketing.

That being said, most businesses have customers who buy from them for a variety of reasons. For example, if you’re a dentist, you probably have some patients who come in religiously every six months for a regular cleaning. Other patients might only come in when they have a toothache they need you to look at.

Which of these two groups do you think are most valuable to a dental practice?

Generally speaking, good marketing doesn’t just bring in new business. It brings in the right sort of business—profitable new sales that produce lifetime customers.

By taking a careful inventory of your ideal existing customers and why they use your product or service, you can figure out what your target market(s) should be and how to promote your offering to them. If your target market is motivated by the same needs, it should be an easy sell to convince them to buy your solution.

What am I selling?

In addition to knowing who your best current customers are, it’s important to think about what it is that you are selling. Different offers appeal to different people for different reasons, so they should have different target markets and messaging.

To put it simply, trying to market different things to the same market with the same tactics rarely works out well.

As a quick example, let’s imagine that you sell cookies. You’ve recently added gluten-free cookies as a new product that you want to start marketing.

How well do you think it will work if you try to market your health-conscious cookies to your regular cookie customers?

Most cookie fans don’t buy cookies because they are healthy. They buy them because they taste good. People who buy healthy cookies are a completely different target market—one that cares about ingredients more than flavor.

Odds are, if you try to market healthy cookies to a target market that cares about flavor, they won’t sell very well. Similarly, if you try to market regular cookies to a health conscious audience, they won’t sell well either.

The trick is to match what you’re selling to who you’re selling it to. Not only does your marketing message need to match your product or service, your target audience also needs to match, too.

Who are my competitors targeting?

One of the easiest ways to pick a target market is to see who your competitors are targeting. Now, I’m not saying that you should always directly fight the competition for the same target market, but taking a look at what the competition is doing can teach you a lot.

As a quick example, consider the following ad:

As you can see from the image above, this gym is offering intense kickboxing workouts on a flexible schedule. Who is their target market? Intense, busy people who need flexibility.

If you run the gym down the street, this ad gives you a few options. First, you can target the same audience and try to offer something this gym isn’t, like a dance aerobics class. Second, you can try to appeal to a market that they are ignoring by offering lower-intensity options like a yoga class. Third, you could try offering a lower price, a personal trainer, or anything that differentiates you from the competition.

See how much you can learn from checking out the competition? How your competitors are choosing to advertise tells you a lot about their target markets, which can help you pick which markets to target with your marketing.

Is my target market big enough?

The last question you need to ask yourself as you pick your target market is “How big is my target market?” The more specific you get with your target audience, the smaller that audience tends to be.

It’s easy to create targeted, highly effective campaigns for small, specific audiences, but your audience needs to be big enough to justify your time and effort.

One easy way to gauge whether or not a target market is big enough to invest in is to divide the size of the market by twenty. If the result is enough potential customers for you to be interested in, your target market is big enough. If it’s not enough people to make a difference to your business, it’s not a big enough market to target.

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Conclusion

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Ultimately, when you get right down to it, your marketing is only as good as your target market. But, if you take the time to pick the right target market, your marketing campaigns will ultimately be much more focused and effective.