Dawn is yet to break over the Sea of when the sensor snaps into action. Hovering 22,000 miles above Earth, the car-sized SBIR (Space-based Infrared System) pings.Sensitive enough to see a single lighted match from 200 miles, it has just detected 's launch of a ballistic missile.Within three seconds, sirens blare 6,000 miles away inside Buckley Space Force base in Aurora, - home of the Aerospace Data Facility.
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