It was equipped with a 3.5m mirror - the largest monolithic mirror ever flown - and three state-of-the-art instruments sensitive to long wavelengths of light, in the far-infrared and sub-millimetre range (55 to 672 microns).

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Also, and especially in light of the proliferation of long-range missiles, theater and national missile defenses are key.

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