(meteorobs) The best Meteor detector on Earth

[James Beauchamp]

CW is on borrowed time.  The various systems in use today (ROSA, Optical, etc) will gap-fill until the pulsed X-band replacement is operational.  (Currently in Demo Development)
 
I estimate about a year left for the USAF Space Radar at Kickapoo.


--- On Mon, 9/17/12, bob <bob71741 at yahoo.com> wrote:


From: bob <bob71741 at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: (meteorobs) The best Meteor detector on Earth
To: "Meteor science and meteor observing" <meteorobs at meteorobs.org>
Date: Monday, September 17, 2012, 10:47 AM


> new system, which I suspect will operate at 432 MHz hopefully at the same
> location as the Kickapoo Site. But that means waiting for something to
> happen, which sucks. If anyone knows of helpful web links to help decide a
> course of action please forward them.


Jay - The new space fence radar is to operate at S-band freqs (>2GHz ) and at locations outside of the CONUS (rumored  three site system-Australia, Ascension Island in the south Atlantic, Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands)

see links for some more info:
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/07/31/air-force-approves-design-newer-bigger-space-fence/
http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/Air-Force-Awards-First-Phase-of-Next-Generation-Space-Fence-05511/


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