Post by swamprat on Aug 29, 2012 19:30:45 GMT -6
Filer’s Files 8/29/12
First Ground-Based Electro-Optical Deep Space Surveillance (GEODSS) system site operational
Peterson AFB, Colo. -- As Air Force Space Command approaches its 30th Anniversary on 1 September, a new Ground-Based Electro-Optical Deep Space Surveillance facility in Diego Garcia, British Indian Ocean Territory has gone operational. It is one of three operational sites worldwide. The facility tracks known man made deep space objects in orbit around Earth. (U.S. Air Force photo..
On 30 July 1982, the first Ground-Based Electro-Optical Deep Space Surveillance (GEODSS) system site was operational in Socorro, N.M. The system was developed to detect, track, and identify all tasked space objects within its area of coverage. GEODSS performs its mission using a telescope, low-light-level television cameras, and computers. The telescopes are able to "see" objects 10,000 times dimmer than the human eye can detect. This sensitivity allows the system to only operate at night and provide data on deep space objects in orbit from 3,000 to 22,000 miles.
GEODSS is a vital part of USSTRATCOM's Space Surveillance Network and the Air Force Space Surveillance System (AFSSS), also known as the "space fence". The Network is tasked to provide space object cataloging and identification, satellite attack warning, timely notification to U.S. forces of satellite fly-over, space treaty monitoring and scientific and technical intelligence gathering.
Editors Note: This system is also capable of tracking UFOs which are known as uncorrelated targets or Fastwalkers. Meaning they are not objects correlated in the data base as known flying objects or debris. I have been told by Air Force personnel that several uncorrelated targets are tracked entering and leaving Earth each week.
www.nationalufocenter.com/artman/publish/article_468.php
First Ground-Based Electro-Optical Deep Space Surveillance (GEODSS) system site operational
Peterson AFB, Colo. -- As Air Force Space Command approaches its 30th Anniversary on 1 September, a new Ground-Based Electro-Optical Deep Space Surveillance facility in Diego Garcia, British Indian Ocean Territory has gone operational. It is one of three operational sites worldwide. The facility tracks known man made deep space objects in orbit around Earth. (U.S. Air Force photo..
On 30 July 1982, the first Ground-Based Electro-Optical Deep Space Surveillance (GEODSS) system site was operational in Socorro, N.M. The system was developed to detect, track, and identify all tasked space objects within its area of coverage. GEODSS performs its mission using a telescope, low-light-level television cameras, and computers. The telescopes are able to "see" objects 10,000 times dimmer than the human eye can detect. This sensitivity allows the system to only operate at night and provide data on deep space objects in orbit from 3,000 to 22,000 miles.
GEODSS is a vital part of USSTRATCOM's Space Surveillance Network and the Air Force Space Surveillance System (AFSSS), also known as the "space fence". The Network is tasked to provide space object cataloging and identification, satellite attack warning, timely notification to U.S. forces of satellite fly-over, space treaty monitoring and scientific and technical intelligence gathering.
Editors Note: This system is also capable of tracking UFOs which are known as uncorrelated targets or Fastwalkers. Meaning they are not objects correlated in the data base as known flying objects or debris. I have been told by Air Force personnel that several uncorrelated targets are tracked entering and leaving Earth each week.
www.nationalufocenter.com/artman/publish/article_468.php