The Integrated Apogee Boost Stage (IABS - alternately, Integrated Apogee Boost Subsystem) was an American rocket stage used for the launch of Defense Satellite Communications System III satellites to geostationary orbit when using a launch vehicle without an upper stage capable of delivering them there directly. Earlier DSCS III satellites had launched on the Titan 34D (using the Transtage or Inertial Upper Stage) and Space Shuttle Atlantis (using the Inertial Upper Stage), which were capable of delivering them directly to geostationary orbit - as such, the satellites were not capable of moving from geostationary transfer orbit to geostationary orbit themselves. Because of this, launch of these satellites on the Atlas II and Delta IV families required an apogee kick stage - the IABS - to b
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