The Air Force's third Space Based Infrared System Geosynchronous Earth Orbit satellite launches into space on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V Evolved Expendable launch Vehicle from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., Jan. 20, 2017. The SBIRS program is managed by the Remote Sensing Systems Directorate at the Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center at Los Angeles Air Force Base, California. Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company, Sunnyvale, California, is the SBIRS prime contractor, and Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems, Azusa, California, is the pay

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The Air Force's third Space Based Infrared System Geosynchronous Earth Orbit satellite launches into space on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V Evolved Expendable launch Vehicle from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., Jan. 20, 2017. The SBIRS program is managed by the Remote Sensing Systems Directorate at the Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center at Los Angeles Air Force Base, California. Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company, Sunnyvale, California, is the SBIRS prime contractor, and Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems, Azusa, California, is the payload developer. ( Air Force photo by Sarah Corrice)

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