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Intercontinental ballistic missile - Flight phases: Encyclopedia II - Intercontinental ballistic missile - Flight phases

The following flight phases can be distinguished: boost phase - 3 to 4 minutes (for a solid rocket shorter than for a liquid-propellant rocket); altitude at the end of this phase is 150 -200 km, typical burn-out speed is 7 km/s midcourse phase - ca. 25 minutes - suborbital flight in an elliptic orbit, i.e. the orbit is part of an ellipse with vertical major axis; the apogee (halfway the midcourse phase) is at an altitude of typically ca. 1200 km; the semi-major axis is between one half of the radius of the Earth and the ...

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Intercontinental ballistic missile: Encyclopedia II - Intercontinental ballistic missile - Flight phases

Intercontinental ballistic missile - Flight phases

The following flight phases can be distinguished:

boost phase - 3 to 4 minutes (for a solid rocket shorter than for a liquid-propellant rocket); altitude at the end of this phase is 150 -200 km, typical burn-out speed is 7 km/s
midcourse phase - ca. 25 minutes - suborbital flight in an elliptic orbit, i.e. the orbit is part of an ellipse with vertical major axis; the apogee (halfway the midcourse phase) is at an altitude of typically ca. 1200 km; the semi-major axis is between one half of the radius of the Earth and the radius; the projection of the orbit on the Earth's surface is a great circle - the missile may release several independent warheads, and penetration aids such as metallic-coated balloons, aluminum chaff, and full-scale warhead decoys
reentry phase (starting at an altitude of 100 km) - 2 minutes - impact is at a speed of up to 4 km/s (for early ICBMs less than 1 km/s).

See also Missile Defense Agency, countermeasure.

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