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News Release from: Thermoteknix Systems | Subject: Infrared camera
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 30 April 2007
Miniature infrared camera in missile
defence test
Thermoteknix's MIRIC TB2-30 miniature infrared camera was used in a 'force of the collision' missile defence test on June 22nd, off the island of Kauai, Hawaii.
Thermoteknix's MIRIC TB2-30 miniature infrared camera was used in a 'hit to kill' missile defence test on June 22nd, off the island of Kauai, Hawaii A standard Missile 3 was launched from the Aegis cruiser USS Shiloh (left) to intercept a separating target with an integrated multi-purpose sensor payload developed in conjunction with Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL)
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 30 Apr 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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This was designed to collect video and infrared imagery of the target's boost and post-boost phases of flight; video coverage of the target's re-entry separation; and spectral, radiometric and video coverage of the intercept.
"Hit to kill" technology uses direct collision of the interceptor missile with the target, destroying the target using only kinetic energy from the force of the collision and this was the seventh successful intercept test involving the sea-based component of the USA's ballistic missile defence system.
The infrared data was collected onboard the target missile by the Thermoteknix's MIRIC TB2-30 unique miniature high performance ruggedized, radiometric infrared camera.
The system is calibrated for temperature measurement in the harshest of environments under the most extreme.
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