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US military ends long-running program to spot nuclear missile launches

Ars Technica ↗ · 2026-10-02 Cached

The US military has officially ended the Defense Support Program, the long-running constellation of infrared satellites first launched in 1970 to detect Soviet ICBM launches and later used to monitor Iraqi Scud missiles, with the last operational satellites flying until 2007.

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