Article: Managing high-speed graphics: from capture to processing, display and storage, it takes a special system.(COMPONENT INTEGRATION)

In February a U.S. Navy AEGIS warship, the USS Lake Erie, fired a tactical missile that destroyed a non-functioning National Reconnaissance Office satellite that was in its final orbit before entering the earth's a[TM]osphere. The objective was the rupture the fuel tank to dissipate approximately 1,000 pounds of hydrazine, a hazardous fuel.

The interception and the monitoring of debris as it entered the earth's a[TM]osphere, most of which, if not all, would burn up upon reentry, was followed from the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) in Colorado Springs, Colo.

Much of the work was done in the NORAD command center deep in the Cheyenne ...

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