File:SM-3 ignition for a satellite destruction mission.jpg
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| Description | 080220-N-XXXXX-025 PACIFIC OCEAN (Feb 20, 2008) At a single modified tactical Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) launches from the U.S. Navy AEGIS cruiser USS Lake Erie (CG 70), successfully impacting a non-functioning National Reconnaissance Office satellite approximately 247 kilometers (133 nautical miles) over the Pacific Ocean, as it traveled in space at more than 17,000 mph. |
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| Source | http://www.navy.mil/view_image.asp?id=55402 080220-N-XXXXX-025 |
| Author | Unknown author |
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| current | 12:02, 21 February 2008 | No thumbnail | 2,100 × 1,500 (1.92 MB) | wikimediacommons>Uwe W. | {{Information |Description=Modified tactical Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) ignites from USS Lake Erie (CG 70) to destroy an NRO satellite. |Source=http://www.navy.mil/list_all.asp?id=35114 |Date=February 20, 2008 |Author=unknown |Permission=US-Navy picture }} |
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