9月5日,在美国佛罗里达州的卡纳维拉尔角发射场,航宇局的一枚高35.36米的“德尔他”运载火箭成功地把空军的两颗卫星送入地球上空200—228公里的轨道。发射90分钟后,航宇局又从新墨西哥州的白沙发射场发射一枚小型“白羊座”火箭,作为两颗卫星的跟踪目标。据战略防御计划发言人说,在两颗卫星以不同的观测角度机动变化时,采用了各种不同的遥感器跟踪观测这枚上升的火箭。然后两颗卫星被制导互相接近,按 On 5 September, at a launch site at Cape Canaveral, Florida, United States, a 35.36-meter “Deltat” carrier rocket of NASA successfully sent two Air Force satellites over the Earth 200-228 Km of track. Ninety minutes after launching, NASA launched a small “Aries” rocket from the White Sands firing depot in New Mexico to track the two satellites. According to a spokesman for the Strategic Defense Project, a variety of remote sensors are used to track the ascent rocket as the two satellites maneuver at different viewing angles. Then two satellites were guided close to each other, press