Text Fwd: Pentagon Star Wars Satellite Achieves Milestone 미 국방부 우주 전쟁 위성 이정표를 이룩하다

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( Original source: New York Times, May 3, 2006
'An aerial view of Starfire, a government observatory in New Mexico where laser work is being done.'

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'This sodium laser—being fired from the Starfire Optical Range on Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico—is used with deformable optics to help eliminate atmospheric distortions when gathering images of objects in space. '

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'Graphic: Sharpening a Laser Beam to Create a weapon'
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United Press International
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Defense satellite achieves milestone
Published: Sept. 20, 2010 at 11:55 AM


REDONDO BEACH, Calif. - A demonstration U.S. missile defense satellite in orbit autonomously transferred target track data from its acquisition sensor to its tracking sensor.

Northrop Grumman and Raytheon, which built the Space Tracking and Surveillance System satellite for the U.S. Missile Defense Agency, said the successful transfer was the first time the capability had been executed in space as part of the STSS program.

"This is a major success for the STSS program," Gabe Watson, vice president of missile defense and missile warning programs for Northrop Grumman's Aerospace Systems sector said. "We proved that the STSS satellites can autonomously transition from target acquisition and track mode using the acquisition sensor to target precision track mode using the multiple band track sensor,

"All of these operations occurred as intended, with no operator intervention. This is the same type and sequence of functions that will be performed on-board during subsequent MDA missile tests."

The data hand-off occurred when the MDA satellite acquired a ground laser operated and pointed by the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory from the Starfire Optical Range at Kirtland Air Force Base near Albuquerque.

Once the acquisition sensor acquired the ground laser, it formed a confirmed track, which was passed to the track sensor. The track sensor slewed and pointed to the coordinates reported by the acquisition sensor, detected the ground laser and formed an on-board track of the ground laser.

Data were transmitted to the STSS ground systems located at Schriever Air Force Base in Colorado Springs.
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Bruce Gagnon blog Nov. 16, 2009
DRONE EXPLOSION

Bob Anderson in Albuquerque, NM sent me a bunch of photos this morning from a protest they just held at Kirtland AFB. Kirtland is a key space warfare technology development base and the folks there who make up the group called Stop the War Machine hold regular protests at the base.

There was also a drone protest this past weekend in upstate New York were Reaper UAV's will be based.

Out near Las Vegas, Nevada a series of protests are being planned at Creech AFB where drones are flown via space satellites over Afghanistan and Pakistan. A CodePink bus will go from the San Francisco bay area to Creech on November 26 and folks will hold actions outside the base thru December 2.

Here in Maine the key advocate for a UAV flight test center at the closing Brunswick Naval Air Station, John Richardson, is declaring his candidacy for governor today. He is a Democrat, and former speaker of the Maine House of Representatives. In the last couple years he has been serving as the Commissioner of the Department of Economic and Community Development. In that role he has been serving on the base redevelopment authority and well over a year ago I saw an article in the local paper where he was pushing drones.

The Democrats are happy to take any and all Pentagon largess....that's one reason why I will be voting for Maine's Green Party governor candidate Lynne Williams in the next election.