Image: SM-3 ignition for a satellite destruction mission
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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.
Title: SM-3 ignition for a satellite destruction mission
Credit: http://www.navy.mil/view_image.asp?id=55402 080220-N-XXXXX-025
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