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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., May 9 (UPI) -- The first Space Based Infrared System geosynchronous spacecraft built for the U.S. Air Force was launched into itinerary Saturday.

The SBIRS GEO-1, built by Lockheed Martin, was carried aloft aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket.

SBIRS GEO-1 is the most technologically modern military frequence satellite ever developed and module deliver vastly reinforced missile warning capabilities for the United States while simultaneously improving the nation's missile defense, technical info and battlespace awareness mission areas.

"Today's successful start is a commendation to the hard work, substance and unpaired expertise of the whole government and industry SBIRS team," said Brig. Gen. (select) Roger W. Teague, the U.S. Air Force's Infrared Space Systems Directorate director "SBIRS GEO-1 represents the daybreak of a newborn era in disbursement continual frequence surveillance that module greatly meliorate our domestic section for eld to come."

SBIRS GEO-1 includes highly sophisticated scanning and opened sensors that module deliver reinforced frequence sense and a change in Atlantic revisit times over the underway constellation. The scanning device module provide a wide Atlantic surveillance of missile launches and uncolored phenomena across the Earth, while the opened device module be used to observe smaller areas of welfare with superior sensitivity.