GBI Credit - Boeing / Rocketdyne

3 stage vehicle consisting of 1 x GEM-40 + 1 x Orbus 1 + 1 x Orbus 1

Manufacturer: Boeing/HSV. Launches: 3. Failures: 1. Success Rate: 66.67%. First Launch Date: 2001-08-31. Last Launch Date: 2004-01-09. Launch data is: continuing. Apogee: 200 km (120 mi). Liftoff Thrust: 500.000 kN (112,400 lbf). Total Mass: 14,000 kg (30,000 lb). Core Diameter: 1.02 m (3.34 ft). Total Length: 15.50 m (50.80 ft).

2001 August 31 - 20:00 GMT - Launch Site: Vandenberg. Launch Complex: LF21. Launch Vehicle: GBI. LV Configuration: GBI BV-2.

• GMDS BVT-2 Test mission Nation: USA. Agency: USAF. Apogee: 200 km (120 mi). References: 1823.

• GMDS BVT-3 Test mission Nation: USA. Agency: USAF. Apogee: 5.00 km (3.10 mi). References: 906.

• GMDS BVT-5 'BV+' Test mission Nation: USA. Agency: USAF AFSPC?. Apogee: 200 km (120 mi). Dummy EKV payload. Launch delayed from August, September, and December 18, 2003. Booster Verification Test -5 tested a three-stage booster configuration for use with the Missile Defense Agency's Ground-based Midcourse Defense System. Built by Lockheed Martin Corp., the booster was one of two slated for use with the GMD system. The system was designed to intercept and destroy long-range ballistic missiles.References: 1944.

• McDowell, Jonathan, Jonathan's Space Home Page, Harvard University, 1997-present. Jonathan McDowell's complete on-line listing of all objects orbited and over 20,000 rocket launches Accessed at: http://www.planet4589.org/jsr.html.