The Eastern Shore can take some pride in the shoot-down of a potentially hazardous defunct satellite early Thursday morning.
Guidance and thruster components of the Standard Missile 3 (SM-3) kill vehicle that successfully intercepted a bus-sized satellite moving at 17,000 mph were produced at Raytheon subcontractor ATK?s facility in Elkton.
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