Naval Space Surveillance System | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-05-17

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00:01:04 1 Description
00:05:18 2 History
00:07:18 2.1 Plans for system upgrade: 2009 — 2012
00:09:40 2.2 2013 Shutdown
00:11:28 3 New space fence
00:11:58 4 See also



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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.  It is a component of the US space surveillance network, and according to the US Navy was able to detect basketball sized (29.5 inches (75 cm)) objects at heights up to 30,000 km (15,000 nautical miles.)The system ceased operation in September 2013. Plans for a new space fence are underway with sites at the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands, along with an option for another radar site in Western Australia.The operation's headquarters were at Dahlgren, Virginia, and radar stations were spread out across the continental United States at roughly the level of the 33rd parallel north.