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132 relations: Air Force Maui Optical and Supercomputing observatory, Air Force Space Surveillance System, Aleutian Islands, AN/FPQ-16 PARCS, AN/FPS-17, Anti-satellite weapon, Antigua, Ariane (rocket family), Ascension Island, Asteroid, Atmosphere of Earth, Atmospheric entry, Ballistic Missile Defense Organization, Ballistic Missile Early Warning System, Bedford, Massachusetts, British Indian Ocean Territory, California, Cavalier Air Force Station, Cavalier, North Dakota, Cheyenne Mountain Complex, Cobra Dane, Collision avoidance (spacecraft), Colorado Springs, Colorado, Comet, Contiguous United States, Dahlgren, Virginia, DARPA, Diego Garcia, Differential equation, Diyarbakır, Earth's orbit, Eglin AFB Site C-6, Eglin Air Force Base, Elliptic orbit, Ephemeris, European Space Agency, Exponential decay, False alarm, Geocentric model, Geocentric orbit, Georgia (U.S. state), Geosynchronous orbit, Globus II, Ground-Based Radar Prototype, Hanscom Field, Hawaii, Haystack Observatory, IBM 709, International Space Station, Joint Functional Component Command for Space, ..., Kaena Point, Kessler syndrome, Krona space object recognition station, Krona-N, Kwajalein Atoll, Laredo Air Force Base, Laredo, Texas, Launch window, Low light level television, Main Space Intelligence Centre, Massachusetts, Maui, Midcourse Space Experiment, Minitrack, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Molniya (satellite), Moon, Moorestown, New Jersey, Morón Air Base, NASA, Naval Station San Miguel, Near-Earth object, North American Aerospace Defense Command, Okno, Okno-S, Operation Moonwatch, Orbital decay, Orbital mechanics, Outer space, Partial derivative, Passive electronically scanned array, PAVE PAWS, Perturbation (astronomy), Photographic film, Pirinçlik Air Base, Portugal, Post-Soviet states, Project Space Track, Project Vanguard, Pulse compression, Radar, Real-time data, Rocket, Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site, Royal Canadian Air Force, San Vito dei Normanni Air Station, Sapphire (satellite), Satellite, Schmidt camera, Series expansion, Shemya, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Socorro, New Mexico, Solid State Phased Array Radar System, South Korea, Soviet Union, Space Based Space Surveillance, Space debris, Space Fence, Space Situational Awareness Programme, Space Surveillance Telescope, Spain, Sputnik 1, Syracuse, New York, Technical intelligence, Telescope, Three-body problem, Trajectory, Two-line element set, United States budget sequestration in 2013, United States Department of Defense, United States Space Command, United States Space Surveillance Network, United States Strategic Command, Vanguard 1, Very high frequency, White Sands, New Mexico, Zonal spherical harmonics, 19th Space Operations Squadron, 20th Space Control Squadron, 21st Space Wing, 3.67 m Advanced Electro Optical System Telescope. Expand index (82 more) »
Air Force Maui Optical and Supercomputing observatory
The Air Force Maui Optical and Supercomputing observatory is an Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) operating location at Haleakala Observatory on Maui, Hawaii, with a twofold mission.
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Air Force Space Surveillance System
The AN/FPS-133 Air Force Space Surveillance System, colloquially known as the Space Fence, was a U.S. government multistatic radar system built to detect orbital objects passing over America.
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Aleutian Islands
The Aleutian Islands (Tanam Unangaa, literally "Land of the Aleuts", possibly from Chukchi aliat, "island") are a chain of 14 large volcanic islands and 55 smaller ones belonging to both the U.S. state of Alaska and the Russian federal subject of Kamchatka Krai.
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AN/FPQ-16 PARCS
The AN/FPQ-16 Perimeter Acquisition Radar Attack Characterization System (PARCS or EPARCS) is a powerful phased-array radar system located in North Dakota.
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AN/FPS-17
The AN/FPS-17 was a ground-based fixed-beam radar system that was installed at three locations worldwide, including Pirinçlik Air Base (formerly Diyarbakir Air Station) in south-eastern Turkey, Laredo, Texas and Shemya Island, Alaska.
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Anti-satellite weapon
Anti-satellite weapons (ASAT) are space weapons designed to incapacitate or destroy satellites for strategic military purposes.
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Antigua
Antigua, also known as Waladli or Wadadli by the native population, is an island in the West Indies.
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Ariane (rocket family)
Ariane is a series of a European civilian expendable launch vehicles for space launch use.
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Ascension Island
Ascension Island is an isolated volcanic island, 7°56' south of the Equator in the South Atlantic Ocean.
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Asteroid
Asteroids are minor planets, especially those of the inner Solar System.
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Atmosphere of Earth
The atmosphere of Earth is the layer of gases, commonly known as air, that surrounds the planet Earth and is retained by Earth's gravity.
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Atmospheric entry
Atmospheric entry is the movement of an object from outer space into and through the gases of an atmosphere of a planet, dwarf planet or natural satellite.
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Ballistic Missile Defense Organization
The Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (BMDO) was an agency of the United States Department of Defense that began on 20 May 1974 with the responsibility for all U.S. ballistic missile defense efforts.
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Ballistic Missile Early Warning System
The RCA 474L Ballistic Missile Early Warning System (BMEWS, "474L System", Project 474L) was a United States Air Force Cold War early warning radar, computer, and communications system, for ballistic missile detection.
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Bedford, Massachusetts
Bedford is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States.
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British Indian Ocean Territory
The British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) is a British overseas territory of the United Kingdom situated in the Indian Ocean halfway between Tanzania and Indonesia.
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California
California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.
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Cavalier Air Force Station
Cavalier Air Force Station, North Dakota is a United States Air Force installation of the 10th Space Warning Squadron of the 21st Space Wing that monitors and tracks potential missile launches against North America with the GE AN/FPQ-16 Enhanced Perimeter Acquisition Radar Attack Characterization System (PARCS).
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Cavalier, North Dakota
Cavalier is the largest city in Pembina County, North Dakota, United States.
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Cheyenne Mountain Complex
The Cheyenne Mountain Complex is a military installation and defensive bunker located in unincorporated El Paso County, Colorado, next to Colorado Springs, at the Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Station, which hosts the activities of several tenant units.
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Cobra Dane
The AN/FPS-108 Cobra Dane radar is a passive electronically scanned array installation operated by Raytheon for the United States Air Force at Eareckson Air Station on the island of Shemya, Aleutian Islands, Alaska.
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Collision avoidance (spacecraft)
In spaceflight, collision avoidance is the process of preventing a spacecraft from colliding with any other vehicle or object.
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Colorado Springs, Colorado
Colorado Springs is a home rule municipality that is the largest city by area in Colorado as well as the county seat and the most populous municipality of El Paso County, Colorado, United States.
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Comet
A comet is an icy small Solar System body that, when passing close to the Sun, warms and begins to release gases, a process called outgassing.
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Contiguous United States
The contiguous United States or officially the conterminous United States consists of the 48 adjoining U.S. states plus Washington, D.C. on the continent of North America.
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Dahlgren, Virginia
Dahlgren is a census-designated place (CDP) in King George County, Virginia, United States.
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DARPA
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is an agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the development of emerging technologies for use by the military.
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Diego Garcia
Diego Garcia is an atoll just south of the equator in the central Indian Ocean, and the largest of 60 small islands comprising the Chagos Archipelago.
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Differential equation
A differential equation is a mathematical equation that relates some function with its derivatives.
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Diyarbakır
Diyarbakır (Amida, script) is one of the largest cities in southeastern Turkey.
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Earth's orbit
Earth's orbit is the trajectory along which Earth travels around the Sun.
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Eglin AFB Site C-6
Eglin AFB Site C-6 is an Air Force Space Command radar station which houses the AN/FPS-85 phased array radar, associated computer processing system(s), and radar control equipment.
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Eglin Air Force Base
Eglin Air Force Base (AFB) is a United States Air Force base located approximately southwest of Valparaiso, Florida in Okaloosa County.
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Elliptic orbit
In astrodynamics or celestial mechanics, an elliptic orbit or elliptical orbit is a Kepler orbit with an eccentricity of less than 1; this includes the special case of a circular orbit, with eccentricity equal to 0.
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Ephemeris
In astronomy and celestial navigation, an ephemeris (plural: ephemerides) gives the positions of naturally occurring astronomical objects as well as artificial satellites in the sky at a given time or times.
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European Space Agency
The European Space Agency (ESA; Agence spatiale européenne, ASE; Europäische Weltraumorganisation) is an intergovernmental organisation of 22 member states dedicated to the exploration of space.
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Exponential decay
A quantity is subject to exponential decay if it decreases at a rate proportional to its current value.
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False alarm
A false alarm, also called a nuisance alarm, is the deceptive or erroneous report of an emergency, causing unnecessary panic and/or bringing resources (such as emergency services) to a place where they are not needed.
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Geocentric model
In astronomy, the geocentric model (also known as geocentrism, or the Ptolemaic system) is a superseded description of the universe with Earth at the center.
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Geocentric orbit
A geocentric orbit or Earth orbit involves any object orbiting Planet Earth, such as the Moon or artificial satellites.
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Georgia (U.S. state)
Georgia is a state in the Southeastern United States.
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Geosynchronous orbit
A geosynchronous orbit (sometimes abbreviated GSO) is an orbit around Earth of a satellite with an orbital period that matches Earth's rotation on its axis, which takes one sidereal day (23 hours, 56 minutes, and 4 seconds).
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Globus II
Globus II is a radar station located at in Vardø, Norway, near the Russian border.
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Ground-Based Radar Prototype
The Ground-Based Radar Prototype (GBR-P) is an X-band mechanically slewed phased array radar system.
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Hanscom Field
Hanscom Field (Laurence G. Hanscom Field) is a public use airport operated by the Massachusetts Port Authority, located 6 miles from the central business district of Bedford, a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States.
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Hawaii
Hawaii (Hawaii) is the 50th and most recent state to have joined the United States, having received statehood on August 21, 1959.
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Haystack Observatory
Haystack Observatory is an astronomical observatory owned by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
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IBM 709
The IBM 709 was a computer system, initially announced by IBM in January 1957 and first installed during August 1958.
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International Space Station
The International Space Station (ISS) is a space station, or a habitable artificial satellite, in low Earth orbit.
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Joint Functional Component Command for Space
The Joint Functional Component Command for Space (JFCC SPACE) was a component of U.S. Strategic Command.
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Kaena Point
Kaena or Kaena Point is the westernmost tip of land on the island of Ookinaahu.
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Kessler syndrome
The Kessler syndrome (also called the Kessler effect, collisional cascading or ablation cascade), proposed by the NASA scientist Donald J. Kessler in 1978, is a scenario in which the density of objects in low earth orbit (LEO) is high enough that collisions between objects could cause a cascade where each collision generates space debris that increases the likelihood of further collisions.
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Krona space object recognition station
Krona space object recognition station (Radiooptichesky Kompleks raspoznavaniya kosmicheskikh obektov "Krona") is a Russian military complex which is used to identify objects (artificial satellites) in outer space using telescopes and radar.
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Krona-N
Krona-N (Radiolokatsionny kompleks Krona-N) is a Russian military complex which uses radar to analyse satellites and other spacecraft.
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Kwajalein Atoll
Kwajalein Atoll (Marshallese: Kuwajleen) is part of the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI).
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Laredo Air Force Base
Laredo Air Force Base is an inactive United States Air Force installation near Laredo, Texas.
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Laredo, Texas
Laredo is the county seat of Webb County, Texas, United States, on the north bank of the Rio Grande in South Texas, across from Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico.
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Launch window
In the context of spaceflight, launch period is the collection of days and launch window is the time period on a given day during which a particular vehicle (rocket, Space Shuttle, etc.) must be launched in order to reach its intended target.
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Low light level television
Low light level television (LLLTV) is a type of electronic sensing device, usually a CCD camera sensitive to wavelengths above the normal "visible" (0.4 to 0.7 micrometre) wavelengths, and into the short-wave Infrared - usually to about 1.0 to 1.1 micrometres.
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Main Space Intelligence Centre
The 821st Main Space Intelligence Centre (GTsRKO) is the headquarters of the Russian military's space surveillance network, SKKP.
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Massachusetts
Massachusetts, officially known as the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is the most populous state in the New England region of the northeastern United States.
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Maui
The island of Maui (Hawaiian) is the second-largest of the Hawaiian Islands at 727.2 square miles (1,883 km2) and is the 17th-largest island in the United States.
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Midcourse Space Experiment
The Midcourse Space Experiment (MSX) is a Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (BMDO) satellite experiment (unmanned space mission) to map bright infrared sources in space.
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Minitrack
The Minitrack Network, was the first U.S. satellite tracking network to become operational, in 1957.
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MIT Lincoln Laboratory
The MIT Lincoln Laboratory, located in Lexington, Massachusetts, is a United States Department of Defense research and development center chartered to apply advanced technology to problems of national security.
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Molniya (satellite)
Molniya (a, "Lightning") were military communications satellites used by the Soviet Union.
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Moon
The Moon is an astronomical body that orbits planet Earth and is Earth's only permanent natural satellite.
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Moorestown, New Jersey
Moorestown is a township in Burlington County, New Jersey, United States and an eastern suburb of Philadelphia.
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Morón Air Base
Morón Air Base is located at in southern Spain, approximately southeast of the city of Seville.
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NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for the civilian space program, as well as aeronautics and aerospace research.
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Naval Station San Miguel
Naval Station San Miguel is an installation of the Philippine Navy located in San Antonio, Zambales, The Philippines.
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Near-Earth object
A near-Earth object (NEO) is any small Solar System body whose orbit can bring it into proximity with Earth.
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North American Aerospace Defense Command
North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), known until March 1981 as the North American Air Defense Command, is a combined organization of the United States and Canada that provides aerospace warning, air sovereignty, and protection for Northern America.
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Okno
Okno (Окно meaning window) is a Russian space surveillance station located in Nurak in Tajikistan.
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Okno-S
Okno-S (Окно-С) is a reported Russian military space surveillance facility used to identify and analyse the orbits of satellites and other space objects.
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Operation Moonwatch
Operation Moonwatch (also known as Project Moonwatch and, more simply, as Moonwatch) was an amateur science program formally initiated by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) in 1956.
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Orbital decay
In orbital mechanics, decay is a process that leads to gradual decrease of the distance between two orbiting bodies at their closest approach (the periapsis) over many orbital periods.
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Orbital mechanics
Orbital mechanics or astrodynamics is the application of ballistics and celestial mechanics to the practical problems concerning the motion of rockets and other spacecraft.
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Outer space
Outer space, or just space, is the expanse that exists beyond the Earth and between celestial bodies.
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Partial derivative
In mathematics, a partial derivative of a function of several variables is its derivative with respect to one of those variables, with the others held constant (as opposed to the total derivative, in which all variables are allowed to vary).
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Passive electronically scanned array
A passive electronically scanned array (PESA), also known as passive phased array, is a phased array antenna, that is an antenna in which the beam of radio waves can be electronically steered to point in different directions, in which all the antenna elements are connected to a single transmitter (such as a magnetron, a klystron or a travelling wave tube) and/or receiver.
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PAVE PAWS
The PAVE PAWS (Precision Acquisition Vehicle Entry Phased Array Warning System) is an elaborate Cold War early warning radar and computer system developed in 1980 to "detect and characterize a sea-launched ballistic missile attack against the United States".
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Perturbation (astronomy)
In astronomy, perturbation is the complex motion of a massive body subject to forces other than the gravitational attraction of a single other massive body.
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Photographic film
Photographic film is a strip or sheet of transparent plastic film base coated on one side with a gelatin emulsion containing microscopically small light-sensitive silver halide crystals.
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Pirinçlik Air Base
Pirinçlik Air Base or Pirinçlik Air Station, formerly Diyarbakır Air Station, was a 41-year-old American-Turkish military base near Diyarbakir, Turkey.
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Portugal
Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic (República Portuguesa),In recognized minority languages of Portugal: Portugal is the oldest state in the Iberian Peninsula and one of the oldest in Europe, its territory having been continuously settled, invaded and fought over since prehistoric times.
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Post-Soviet states
The post-Soviet states, also collectively known as the former Soviet Union (FSU) or former Soviet Republics, are the states that emerged and re-emerged from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in its breakup in 1991, with Russia internationally recognised as the successor state to the Soviet Union after the Cold War.
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Project Space Track
Project Space Track was a research and development project of the US Air Force, to create a system for tracking all artificial earth satellites and space probes, domestic and foreign.
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Project Vanguard
Project Vanguard was a program managed by the United States Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), which intended to launch the first artificial satellite into Earth orbit using a Vanguard rocket as the launch vehicle from Cape Canaveral Missile Annex, Florida.
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Pulse compression
Pulse compression is a signal processing technique commonly used by radar, sonar and echography to increase the range resolution as well as the signal to noise ratio.
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Radar
Radar is an object-detection system that uses radio waves to determine the range, angle, or velocity of objects.
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Real-time data
Real-time data (RTD) is information that is delivered immediately after collection.
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Rocket
A rocket (from Italian rocchetto "bobbin") is a missile, spacecraft, aircraft or other vehicle that obtains thrust from a rocket engine.
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Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site
The Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site, commonly referred to as the Reagan Test Site (formerly Kwajalein Missile Range), is a missile test range in Marshall Islands (Pacific Ocean).
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Royal Canadian Air Force
The Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF; Aviation royale canadienne, ARC) is the air force of Canada.
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San Vito dei Normanni Air Station
San Vito dei Normanni Air Station was a United States Air Force facility located 7 mi /10 km NNW of Brindisi, Apulia, between the port of Brindisi and the town of San Vito dei Normanni, Italy.
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Sapphire (satellite)
Sapphire is a Canadian space surveillance satellite which was launched in 2013.
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Satellite
In the context of spaceflight, a satellite is an artificial object which has been intentionally placed into orbit.
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Schmidt camera
A Schmidt camera, also referred to as the Schmidt telescope, is a catadioptric astrophotographic telescope designed to provide wide fields of view with limited aberrations.
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Series expansion
In mathematics, a series expansion is a method for calculating a function that cannot be expressed by just elementary operators (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division).
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Shemya
Shemya or Simiya (Samiyax̂) is a small island in the Near Islands group of the Semichi Islands chain in the Aleutian Islands archipelago southwest of Alaska, at.
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Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) is a research institute of the Smithsonian Institution headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where it is joined with the Harvard College Observatory (HCO) to form the Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA).
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Socorro, New Mexico
Socorro is a city in Socorro County in the U.S. state of New Mexico.
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Solid State Phased Array Radar System
The Solid State Phased Array Radar System (SSPARS, colloquially "BMEWS radar network'" as late as 2004) is a USAF radar, computer, and communications system for missile warning and space surveillance "at five (5) geographically separated units worldwide including Beale AFB, CA, Cape Cod, AFS, MA, Clear AFS, AK, RAF Fylingdales, UK, and Thule AB, Greenland." SSPARS completed replacement of the RCA 474L Ballistic Missile Early Warning System when the last SSPAR (phased array radar with 2500 "solid state transmitter" modules) was operational at Clear in 2001, the year SSPARS equipment included.
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South Korea
South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (대한민국; Hanja: 大韓民國; Daehan Minguk,; lit. "The Great Country of the Han People"), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korean Peninsula and lying east to the Asian mainland.
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Soviet Union
The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a socialist state in Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991.
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Space Based Space Surveillance
The Space Based Space Surveillance (SBSS) system is a planned constellation of satellites and supporting ground infrastructure that will improve the ability of the United States Department of Defense (DoD) to detect and track space objects in orbit around the Earth.
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Space debris
Space debris (also known as space junk, space waste, space trash, space litter or space garbage) is a term for the mass of defunct, artificially created objects in space, most notably in Earth orbit, such as old satellites and spent rocket stages.
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Space Fence
The Space Fence is a second-generation space surveillance system currently being built by the US Air Force in order to track artificial satellites and space debris in Earth orbit.
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Space Situational Awareness Programme
The Space Situational Awareness (SSA) Programme is the European Space Agency's initiative designed to support Europe's independent space access and utilization through the timely and accurate information delivery regarding the space environment, and particularly hazards to both in orbit and ground infrastructure.
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Space Surveillance Telescope
The Space Surveillance Telescope is a telescope for detecting and tracking orbital debris.
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Spain
Spain (España), officially the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España), is a sovereign state mostly located on the Iberian Peninsula in Europe.
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Sputnik 1
Sputnik 1 (or; "Satellite-1", or "PS-1", Простейший Спутник-1 or Prosteyshiy Sputnik-1, "Elementary Satellite 1") was the first artificial Earth satellite.
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Syracuse, New York
Syracuse is a city in and the county seat of Onondaga County, New York, in the United States.
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Technical intelligence
In a pure military context, Technical Intelligence (TECHINT) is intelligence about weapons and equipment used by the armed forces of foreign nations (often referred to as foreign material).The related term, scientific and technical intelligence, addresses information collected at the strategic (i.e., national) level.
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Telescope
A telescope is an optical instrument that aids in the observation of remote objects by collecting electromagnetic radiation (such as visible light).
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Three-body problem
In physics and classical mechanics, the three-body problem is the problem of taking an initial set of data that specifies the positions, masses, and velocities of three bodies for some particular point in time and then determining the motions of the three bodies, in accordance with Newton's laws of motion and of universal gravitation, which are the laws of classical mechanics.
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Trajectory
A trajectory or flight path is the path that a massive object in motion follows through space as a function of time.
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Two-line element set
A two-line element set (TLE) is a data format encoding a list of orbital elements of an Earth-orbiting object for a given point in time, the epoch.
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United States budget sequestration in 2013
The budget sequestration in 2013 refers to the automatic spending cuts to United States federal government spending in particular categories of outlays that were initially set to begin on January 1, 2013, as an austerity fiscal policy as a result of Budget Control Act of 2011 (BCA), and were postponed by two months by the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 until March 1 when this law went into effect.
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United States Department of Defense
The Department of Defense (DoD, USDOD, or DOD) is an executive branch department of the federal government of the United States charged with coordinating and supervising all agencies and functions of the government concerned directly with national security and the United States Armed Forces.
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United States Space Command
The United States Space Command (USSPACECOM) was a Unified Combatant Command of the United States Department of Defense, created in 1985 to help institutionalize the use of outer space by the United States Armed Forces.
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United States Space Surveillance Network
The United States Space Surveillance Network detects, tracks, catalogs and identifies artificial objects orbiting Earth, e.g. active/inactive satellites, spent rocket bodies, or fragmentation debris.
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United States Strategic Command
United States Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM), is one of ten unified commands in the United States Department of Defense.
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Vanguard 1
Vanguard 1 (ID: 1958-Beta 2) was the fourth artificial Earth orbital satellite to be successfully launched (following Sputnik 1, Sputnik 2, and Explorer 1).
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Very high frequency
Very high frequency (VHF) is the ITU designation for the range of radio frequency electromagnetic waves (radio waves) from 30 to 300 megahertz (MHz), with corresponding wavelengths of ten to one meter.
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White Sands, New Mexico
White Sands is a census-designated place (CDP) in Doña Ana County, New Mexico, United States.
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Zonal spherical harmonics
In the mathematical study of rotational symmetry, the zonal spherical harmonics are special spherical harmonics that are invariant under the rotation through a particular fixed axis.
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19th Space Operations Squadron
The 19th Space Operations Squadron is an Air Force Reserve space operations unit, located at Schriever Air Force Base, Colorado.
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20th Space Control Squadron
The 20th Space Control Squadron (20SPCS) is a 21st Space Wing unit with the mission to execute multiplatform, tactical space warfighting domain characterization, recognition, and responsiveness to achieve 21st Space Wing and United States Strategic Command intent.
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21st Space Wing
The 21st Space Wing is a unit of the Air Force Space Command based at Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado.
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3.67 m Advanced Electro Optical System Telescope
The 3.67 m Advanced Electro Optical System Telescope is a Department of Defense telescope at Haleakala Observatory.
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GEODSS, Ground-Based Electro-Optical Deep Space Surveillance System, Ground-based Electro-Optical Deep Space Surveillance, Space Object Catalog, Space Surveillance Network, Space Surveillance Telescope program, Space catalog, U.S. Space Surveillance Network, US space surveillance network, Us space surveillance network.
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Space_Surveillance_Network
