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RE: Two-Stage OBV Interceptor Rocket

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Orbital's Two-Stage OBV Interceptor Rocket Successfully Launched for Missile Defence Flight Test

Orbital Sciences Corporation announced today that a two-stage configuration of its flight-proven Orbital Boost Vehicle (OBV) was successfully flight-tested earlier today in the Booster Verification Test-1 (BVT-1) mission that originated from Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB), CA. Under a contract from The Boeing Company for the Ground-based Midcourse Defence (GMD) system, Orbital developed a two-stage ground-based
interceptor (GBI) booster that will provide the Missile Defence Agency (MDA) more flexibility in how it addresses emerging threats to the United States, its deployed troops and allied nations. Largely based on the original three-stage OBV GBI, Orbital designed and tested a two-stage version that could be deployed at current interceptor locations to augment existing capabilities, or at new locations in the United States or abroad to counter threats from particular geographic locations.
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