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What makes a ballistic system… ballistic? A ballistic system leaves the atmosphere within moments, accelerates to extremely high speeds, and re-enters into the atmosphere, undergoes high thermal and mechanical stress and reaches precisely its objective on a previously calculated trajectory. This flight profile combines speed, altitude and precision to...

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