Atlas V Rocket Launches Space Force’s 5th SBIRS Geo-5 Missile Warning Satellite Our Bureau 411
An Atlas V rocket carrying the U.S. Space Force’s SBIRS Geo-5 missile warning satellite was launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida earlier today.
As planned, Space Based Infrared System Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (SBIRS GEO-5) satellite built by Lockheed Martin is responding to the Space Force’s Space Delta 4 operations team’s commands. Signal acquisition was confirmed approximately ~36 minutes after the satellite s 1:37 p.m. EDT launch aboard a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket. Now separated from the rocket, the satellite is continuing on to orbit under its own propulsion.