(meteorobs) The best Meteor detector on Earth

[Jay Salsburg]

http://www.lockheedmartin.com/us/news/press-releases/2012/march/0306-ms2-spa
ce-fence-radar-prototype-tracking-orbiting-objects.html

 

Thanks goes out to the Meteor Science and Observing Group for the relevant
information.

 

The so-called "Space Fence" is a PR phrase for something that does not
exist, at least for Meteor Observers like NAVSPASUR does at present. To
quote the above Web Page.

 

"Space Fence will enable the decommissioning of the aging U.S.-based Air
Force Space Surveillance System (AFSSS), originally installed in 1961." I
assume the reference to AFSSS is a reference to the NAVSPASUR System.

 

Notice there are no details about the Contracts, the Technology, or even any
locations. The information presented in this web site is glossy Madison
Avenue Public Relations. None of this Multi-Billion Dollar new-tech will be
available to us Meteor Nerds.

 

This calls for a whole new approach. My original thought was to create a
network using NAVSPASUR receivers. Forward Scatter RADAR is not a (real)
network because the DATA is impossible collate. Pulse-Doppler RADAR DATA is
colatable (colatable may not be a real word). Anyhow, I will begin studying
the possibility of creating a Pulse-Doppler RADAR device, may be easier than
a NAVSPASUR receiver.

From: meteorobs-bounces at meteorobs.org
[mailto:meteorobs-bounces at meteorobs.org] On Behalf Of James Beauchamp
Sent: Monday, September 17, 2012 12:07 PM
To: Meteor science and meteor observing
Subject: Re: (meteorobs) The best Meteor detector on Earth

 


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-bi
gger-space-fence/
http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/Air-Force-Awards-First-Phase-of-Next-Gen
eration-Space-Fence-05511/


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